Quotes
Quotes about Grace
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.
Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.
Always accept good fortune with grace and humility.
Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving.
Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect.
Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?
How inimitably graceful children are before they learn to dance.
Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.
"Oh! what a vile and abject thing is man unless he can erect himself above humanity." Here is a bon mot and a useful desire, but equally absurd. For to make the handful bigger than the hand, the armful bigger then the arm, and to hope to stride further than the stretch of our legs, is impossible and monstrous. . . . He may lift himself if God lend him His hand of special grace; he may lift himself . . . by means wholly celestial. It is for our Christian religion, and not for his Stoic virtue, to pretend to this divine and miraculous metamorphosis.
'Ay,' quoth my uncle Gloucester, 'Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace.' And since, methinks, I would not grow so fast, Because sweet flow'rs are slow and weeds make haste.
He who finds thought that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great grace. He who, in addition, experiences the recognition, sympathy, and help of the best minds of his times, had been given almost more happiness than one man can bear.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace, That I shall think it a most plenteous crop To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps.
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Green, slender, leaf-clad holly boughs Were twisted gracefu' round her brows, I took her for some Scottish Muse, By that same token, An' come to stop those reckless vows, Would soon be broken.
For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem. - Charles Hadden Spurgeon,
What care if the day Be turned to gray, What care if the night come soon! We may choose the pace Who bow for grace, At the Inn of the Silver Moon.
Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve.. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
He who the sword of heaven will bear Should be as holy as severe; Pattern in himself to know, Grace to stand, and virtue go; More nor less to others paying Than by self-offenses weighing. Shame to him whose cruel striking Kills for faults of his own liking.
