Graciousness Quotes:

I've been fortunate to live a very full professional life. Most of it has happened through God's graciousness and not from something I've imagined.

- Oleta Adams

topic: Graciousness, Happened, Professional Life

In many cases, change is not a function of life's cruelty but instead a function of God's graciousness.

- Shauna Niequist

topic: Graciousness, Function, Cases

One must place one's principles in big things. For the small, graciousness will suffice.

- Albert Camus

source: Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

topic: Principles, Graciousness, Bigs

Your graciousness is what carries you. It isn't how old you are, how young you are, how beautiful you are, or how short your skirt is. What it is, is what comes out of your heart. If you are gracious, you have won the game.

- Stevie Nicks

topic: Beautiful, Heart, Games, Beautiful You, Graciousness

To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness.

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Humility, Pride, Maturity, Poise, Graciousness

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

- Francis Bacon

topic: Men, Citizens, World, Courteous, Acts Of Kindness

Graciousness is the fruit of someone who knows how badly they themselves need grace.

- Tullian Tchividjian

source: Twitter post from Feb 26, 2015

topic: Grace, Needs, Fruit, Graciousness

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

- Charles Caleb Colton

source: Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.157

topic: Funny, Sarcastic, Yield, Firmness, Decisiveness

Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.

- Emily Post

topic: Courtesy, Manners, Social, Graciousness

Femininity is not just lipstick, stylish hairdos, and trendy clothes. It is the divine adornment of humanity. It finds expression in your qualities of your capacity to love, your spirituality, delicacy, radiance, sensitivity, creativity, charm, graciousness, gentleness, dignity, and quiet strength.

- James E. Faust

topic: Strength, Love You, Creativity, Quiet Strength, Hairdos

My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country.

- Wolfman Jack

source: Wolfman Jack, Byron Laursen (2011). “Have Mercy!: Confessions of the Original Rock 'n' Roll Animal - Wolfman Jack”, p.371, BookBaby

topic: Country, Fake People, Titles, Graciousness

Kindness is always fashionable.

- Amelia Barr

source: Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.98, Litres

topic: Thank You, Kindness, Philanthropy, Graciousness

Sportsmanship is the ethical and moral dimension of sports. It is demonstrated by a number of attributes and attitudes such as fair play, respect for the rules and traditions of the sport and various traits of good character including integrity (abiding by the letter and spirit of the rules and concepts of honor); demonstrated respect for others including teammates, opponents, officials and spectators; accountability, self-control, and graciousness in victory and defeat.

- Michael Josephson

topic: Sports, Respect, Attitude, Fair Play, Victory And Defeat

Art itself is female - it is full of graciousness, cadence, color, rhythm. It's full of love and grace.

- Juan Gabriel

topic: Art, Color, Grace, Graciousness

Graciousness, courtesy, compassion-this is hesed. Hesed is a quality that extends even to the animals and the land. The sabbath rest principle of Hebrew law included the needs of the livestock (Exod. 23:12). After seven years of planting and harvesting, the land itself needed "a year of complete rest" (Lev. 25:5). Even the soil of the vineyards was not to be overtaxed by planting other crops between the rows (Deut. 22:9). The oxen that trod out the grain were not to be muzzled so that they could eat while they worked (Deut. 25:4). And so on.

- Richard J. Foster

topic: Animal, Compassion, Oxen, Graciousness

My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness.

- George W. Romney

topic: Inspiration, Wife, Empathy, Graciousness

We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the psalms, and that the habit of celebrating the greatness and graciousness of God yields an endless flow of thankfulness, joy, and zeal.

- J. I. Packer

topic: Christian, Godly, Greatness, Christian Worship, Psalms

God's graciousness is not totally removed from any individual during this lifetime. In hell, it is.

- R. C. Sproul

topic: Hell, Lifetime, Individual, Graciousness

The lessons near and far have taught us that our truth is Kuwait, and our involvement with this fact is what created for us, with God's graciousness, our victory set.

- Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

topic: Kuwait, Victory, Lessons, Near And Far, Graciousness

Cynicism is intelectual dandyism, but graciousness in speech is an aphrodisiac. (Andy Spade)

- Kate Spade

topic: Aphrodisiac, Speech, Cynicism, Dandyism, Graciousness

I would recommend a free commerce both of matter and mind. I would let men enter their own churches with the same freedom as their own houses; and I would do it without a homily or graciousness or favor, for tyranny itself is to me a word less odious than toleration.

- Walter Savage Landor

topic: Men, House, Mind, E Commerce, Graciousness

Never have I witnessed such sincere hospitality and the overwhelming spirit of true brotherhood as is practiced by people of all colours and races here in this ancient Holy Land, the home of Abraham, Muhammad, and all the other prophets of the Holy Scriptures. For the past week, I have been utterly speechless and spellbound by the graciousness I see displayed all around me by people of all colours.

- Malcolm X

source: Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.347, Ballantine Books

topic: Home, Past, Land, True Brotherhood, Holy Land

If you happen to find it hard to have sustained conversations, try keeping your voice up at the end of the sentence. There is a charming graciousness in doing so, for it seems to say that you do not think your remarks are the last words to be said on the subject. It prevents you from seeming opinionated. How men dislike an opinionated woman! No one really likes her! To keep your voice up sounds as though you are interested in other people's ideas. The subject is still open!

- Margery Wilson

topic: Men, Thinking, Ideas, Graciousness

... I too once belived in the heavier gauge string as a superior tone source. However, thanks to the graciousness of B.B. King I learned that a lighter-gauge string offers superior playing comfort ... try it, you may like it ...

- Billy Gibbons

topic: Music, Kings, Trying, Graciousness

Parasitism is the only practice of the church; with its ideal of anaemia, its holiness, draining all blood, all love, all hope for life; the beyond as the will to negate every reality; the cross as the mark of recognition for the most subterranean conspiracy that ever existed-against health, beauty, whatever has turned out well, courage, spirit, graciousness of the soul, against life itself.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Reality, Blood, Practice, Draining, Anaemia

Our girls have need of such an example of graciousness, elegance, refinement, and spirituality.

- Maria Young Dougall

topic: Girl, Example, Needs, Graciousness

[Sandra Day O'Connor] is a justice whose graciousness and sense of duty fuels her continued service, even agreeing to serve more than six months after her retirement date.

- Patrick Leahy

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Sandra Day O Connor, Graciousness

It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.---

- Friedrich Nietzsche

source: Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.261, Modern Library

topic: Art, Mean, Men, Graciousness

If one had to define one essential gift with which a dancer needs to be endowed, there might be a rush of answers. A beautiful body, grace of line, graciousness of spirit, joy in the work, ability to please, unswerving integrity, relentless ambition towards some abstract perfection. Certainly all these factors determine a dancer's character, and every element exists in some combination within the performing artist's presence.

- Lincoln Kirstein

topic: Beautiful, Dance, Integrity, Performing Artist, Performing Arts

Like families, competitors can bring out the worst as well as the best in each other. Like romance, competition has many faces, some of them ugly. In addition to showing me my grace and graciousness, the mirror of sports has reflected back to me my jealousy, pettiness, and arrogance.

- Mariah Nelson

topic: Sports, Mirrors, Romance, Many Faces, Pettiness

By some special graciousness of fate I am deposited - as all good photographers like to be - in the right place at the right time. Go into it as young as possible. Bring all the asset you have and play to win.

- Margaret Bourke-White

topic: Photography, Fate, Winning, Play To Win, Right Place

There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with our selves.

- Joseph Joubert

topic: Self Esteem, Men, Long, Graciousness

Thoughts for Young Men abounds in reliable counsel and says - with a rare combination of seriousness and graciousness - the very things we need to hear. Young men, for whom it was written, will find it invaluable; but all Christians, men or women, young or old, can read it with lasting benefit. It deserves to be widely read and circulated, and will do spiritual good to every reader.

- Sinclair B. Ferguson

topic: Christian, Spiritual, Men, Graciousness

The art of British Columbia's native Indians played a big role in inspiring my creativity... the simplicity of the images, the graciousness of the lines and curves, and the emotional impact of the bright simple primary colours.

- Joe Average

topic: Art, Creativity, Simple, British Columbia, Graciousness

Just keep playing, mastering as you do the step Into disorder this one meant. Don't you see It's all we can do? Meanwhile, great fires Arise, as of haystacks aflame. The dial has been set And that's ominous, but all your graciousness in living Conspires with it, now that this is our home: A place to be from, and have people ask about.

- John Ashbery

source: John Ashbery (1985). “A Wave: Poems”, p.2, Ardent Media

topic: Home, Fire, People, Ominous, Graciousness