83 Quotes About Graciousness

If you think the most courageous and difficult thing you can do is stubbornly stand your ground, try graciously giving in.

each year, she finds her friendships less volatile and easier, because she increasingly succeeds at looking past their flaws and disappointments and homing in on their pleasures and on what set them in motion to begin with. And she wonders why she didn’t do that sooner, why she gave in to so much fury and sorrow when she could have just let those emotions go.

A man who called everyone a damn fool is like a man who damns the weather. He only shows that he is not adapted to his environment, not that the environment is wrong.

In America religion is the road to knowledge, and the observance of the divine laws leads man to civil freedom.

She was torn between her customer service training and her youthful certitude.

Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden.

She was an experimental child but compassionate with it.

She was never satisfied with anything less than perfection, but she was no grind. She was too interested in people.

The author perceptively outlines what might be an underrated aspect of his subject and of many others whose public achievements are of note – a "gift for friendship". McCullough says Adams, despite his towering intellect and curmudgeonly demeanor, had a soft heart for other people and a genuine interest in their particulars.