“ The fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser. ”
- O. J. Simpson- Copy
- 2.8K
“ The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved. ”
- Russell Lynes- Copy
- 543
“ If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men. ”
- Archibald Alexander- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public. ”
- Jessica Mitford- Copy
- 1.4K
“ My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive. ”
- Horatio Nelson- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Women are among the most gracious phenomenons ever to walk the earth. I only sympathize for the many men who consider to be more manly is to be as much not like a woman. ”
- Stuart Nail- Copy
- 3.2K
“ If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
- 970
“ With every civil right there has to be a corresponding civil obligation. ”
- Edison Haines- Copy
- 866
“ Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant. ”
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich- Copy
- 3.9K
“ The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself. ”
- The Bible- Copy
- 3.1K
“ If a man be gracious, and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. ”
- Sir Francis Bacon- Copy
- 416
“ A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
- 1.1K
“ A sweet word multiplieth friends, and appeaseth enemies, and a gracious tongue in a good man aboundeth. ”
- Apocrypha- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you. ”
- Elsie De Wolfe- Copy
- 3.3K
“ He hath made His wonderful works to be remembered: The Lord is gracious and full of compassion. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say? ”
- Edward M. Forster- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Oh, what a cause of thankfulness it is that we have a gracious God to go to on all occasions! Use and enjoy this privilege and you can never be miserable. Oh, what an unspeakable privilege is prayer! ”
- Lady Maxwell- Copy
- 2.7K
“ God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance. ”
- Patrick Gordon- Copy
- 483
“ There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance. ”
- Arthur Helps- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The slight that can be conveyed in a glance, in a gracious smile, in a wave of the hand, is often the knee plus ultra of art. What insult is so keen or so keenly felt, as the polite insult which it is impossible to resent? ”
- Julia Kavanagh- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like excuse me and other such simple courtesies… Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideration, is but another mark that our time-is-money society, is lacking in spirituality, if not also in its enjoyment of life. ”
- Ed Hays- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost. ”
- Donald Rumsfeld- Copy
- 3.2K
“ I have discovered that when we least care to admit it, we feel more confused than thankful, more caught than called, more worried than gracious. In humble moments when we can no longer gloss over the roughness of life, gratitude has a way of pushing out the real soreness of feeling cheated or inadequate to the rugged realities of the world… ”
- Patrick J. Malone S.J.- Copy
- 2.6K
“ May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this -when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown. ”
- Homer- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Swearing is like any other music…If it is not done well, if it is not done with a fine and discriminating art, and vitalized with gracious and heartborn feeling, it lacks beauty, it lacks charm, it lacks expression, it lacks nobleness, it lacks majesty… ”
- David Gridley- Copy
- 2.5K
“ So long as faith with freedom reigns And loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains To leaven lowly lives; While there is one untrodden tract For intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still. ”
- Alfred Austin- Copy
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