Quotes of Gracefully - somelinesforyou

“ Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won. ”

- Caroline Leigh Gascoigne

“ Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth…suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully. ”

- Julie Burchill

“ It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily. ”

- R. Palmer

“ Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige ”

- James Thurber

“ Talent on its own sat gracefully only on the very young. After a certain age it was what you did with it that counted. ”

- Liza Cody

“ The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face. ”

- Sidney J. Harris

“ I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation. ”

- Bo Bennett

“ It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily. ”

- Arnold Palmer

“ It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily. ”

- Lydia M. Child

“ Making an issue of little things is one of the surest ways to spoil happiness. One's personal pride is felt to be vitally injured by surrender, but there is no quality of human nature so nearly royal as the ability to yield gracefully. It shows small confidence in one's own nature to fear that compromise lessens self-control… ”

- Charles Conrad

“ Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story… Be yourself… ”

- Max Ehrmann

“ I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I am the creator of my life and my world. I meet daily challenges gracefully and with complete confidence. I fill my mind with positive, nurturing, and healing thoughts. ”

- Alice Potter

“ She was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star. ”

- Louisa May Alcott

“ When you learn what you can live without, you are able to ask life for the very best because you possess the gift of discernment. You develop patience that enables you to wait gracefully and gratefully until the best arrives because you know it will. ”

- Sarah Ban Breathnach
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