These graceful quotes will inspire you. Graceful is displaying grace in form or action or having or showing grace or elegance.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging graceful quotes, graceful sayings, and graceful proverbs.
Best Graceful Quotes
- “Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.” Douglas Hyde
- “me I’m clever, Tell me I’m kind, Tell me I’m talented, Tell me I’m cute, Tell me I’m sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I’m perfect – But tell me the truth.” Shel Silverstein
- “Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.” Drew Barrymore
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“The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.” Richard Carlson
- “The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.” Maxine Hong Kingston
- “Skating can make you feel athletic, graceful, beautiful.” Gracie Gold
- “Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated.” Kate Winslet
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“There’s a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over – and to let go. It means leaving what’s over without denying its value.” Ellen Goodman
- “A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.” Pindar
- “We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.” John Ruskin
- “If I could adopt any zoo animal, it would be a giraffe. I have always loved giraffes. They are so graceful and beautiful to watch.” Torrey DeVitto
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“Women can be powerful, graceful, and complex, with the ability to make any choice they desire.” Jessica Chastain
- “A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.” Louis Nizer
- “Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.” Orlando Bloom
- “Simplicity and honesty make a person most graceful, but in today’s world, they are overrated.” Jaya Prada
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“Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.” Malcolm Muggeridge
- “I’m focused now, definitely. I absolutely need to show everyone that I’m powerful and strong and can be graceful and artistic, too.” Aly Raisman
- “Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.” Henri Frederic Amiel
- “Being tall has a major impact in general. It takes some courage to be as big as you are – to live up to it and not be intimidated by the graceful tiny people.” Sigourney Weaver
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“In our view, the Olympic idea involves a strong physical culture supplemented on the one hand by mobility, what is so aptly called ‘fair play’, and on the other hand by aesthetics, that is the cultivation of what is beautiful and graceful.” Pierre de Coubertin
- “The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.” Auguste Rodin
- “Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they’re so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.” Orlando Bloom
- “My struggle has been graceful. Yes, I have taken money from family, but never from outsiders.” Ankit Tiwari
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“The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky.” Shana Alexander
- “The story was such that I couldn’t make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn’t want to. So, it isn’t the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I’m pleased with it anyway.” Jack Vance
- “I love the semicolon; it’s unnecessary but graceful and sophisticated.” Brian P. Cleary
- “There’s a time and a place for everything. There’s a time to sleep, wake up, there’s a time to be graceful, and there’s a time to be aggressive.” Keith Thurman
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“I am going to oblige all my TV commitments, and if films work out, I will make a graceful exit.” Hiten Tejwani
- “My favorite mode of transport is hot-air ballooning. It’s so graceful to be blown by the wind, to go where the wind takes you.” Richard Branson
- “For a gymnast to be successful, she needs to strike a balance of everything within herself. She needs to be graceful, flexible, perform all elements, turns, maintain coordination – she has to have all of that. If, for example, she only has co-ordination and nothing else, she will not succeed.” Yana Kudryavtseva
- “Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.” Edmund Burke
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“Relatively mild gusts of wind blow some trees down. Graceful palm trees, for example, are lovely to look at but will not stand up in a heavy wind because they are not well anchored.” Joseph B. Wirthlin
- “I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.” Erma Bombeck
- “No one teaches you how to be grateful.” Nell Carter
- “Never should an unfamiliar word be passed over without elucidation, for, with a little conscientious research, we may each day add to our conquests in the realm of philology and become more and more ready for graceful independent expression.” H. P. Lovecraft
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“In Hebrew, the name Susan means ‘graceful lily’ – in Khmer, it means ‘girl with the bad puns,’ and in ancient Aztec, it translates as ‘she with the cockerel hair and dirty glasses.’ ” Sue Perkins
- “Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result.” Tommy Armour
- “Learn graceful ways of saying no and of pointing out that this pressure to do something is not in line with most people’s wishes.” Judith Martin
- “A person with grace is somebody who’s socially graceful or is a classy person, but sometimes you just feel the opposite of that, and you just feel like a jerk and a loser and a weirdo.” Matt Berninger
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“A camel is a very awkward animal to ride, and it’s very hard to get used to because they’re not very graceful.” Gigi Hadid
- “The best riders in the world with the best horses make it look so elegant and graceful. When you watch it done well, it looks so easy that it’s difficult for the public to understand how hard this really is.” Jessica Springsteen , Elegance and graceful quotes
- “To write a kernel without a data structure and have it be as consistent and graceful as UNIX would have been a much, much harder challenge.” Rob Pike
- ” ‘Death with dignity’ is our society’s expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of life’s last sputterings. But the fact is, death is not a confrontation. It is simply an event in the sequence of nature’s ongoing rhythms.” Sherwin B. Nuland , Graceful quotes life
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“As an adult, I took ballet classes three times a week, and I believed it gave me better posture, a stronger body, and made me more graceful.” Ann Hood
- “I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.” Hans-Ulrich Obrist
- “Dancing for the length of time that I did, it centered me in such a way to be really in tune with my body, and I just feel like I’m physically able to do things because of my ballet background. Without ballet, I don’t think I’d look graceful at all on screen.” Zoe Saldana
- “All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.” Joshua Reynolds
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“I keep reading that I’m diminutive – why do people call me that? I’m 5ft 11in with size 11 feet. I’d actually like smaller feet. It might be a fetish, but I do like graceful feet, and small ones lend themselves to grace.” Mick Hucknall
- “I was a dork. I’m still kind of goofy and clumsy and not always the most graceful person.” Katrina Bowden
- “In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.” Christian Nestell Bovee
- “I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.” Harold Nicholas
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“The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightning.” Richard Blackmore
- “Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven’t gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights”. Hal David\
- “I’m not graceful.” Karlie Kloss
- “Of course, fighting is not going to be as graceful as movie fighting. I don’t like it to be ugly and I don’t like it to be one big brawl or people clobbering each other.” Gina Carano
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“When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover.” Bruno Tonioli
- “I’m not the most delicate – I’m not the most graceful person, and I like playing a sport where being not delicate and not graceful is actually a good thing.” Mary McCormack
- “I am not graceful.” Analeigh Tipton
- “I’ve been lifting weights since I was literally 15 or 16 years old. My muscles are short and powerful and built to lift heavy weights, not to be graceful and glide around a dance floor.” Jake Pavelka , Graceful quotes dance
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“I have been presented with roles with demand, not just a physical ability but mental disciplines as well. ‘Memoirs of a Geisha’ was not so much about physical exertion… it was much more graceful and contained than that.” Michelle Yeoh
- “I love basketball players for what they do for their size – so graceful.” Warren Moon
- “People ask me about fighting in real life and, honestly, it wouldn’t look as graceful as it does in film and TV.” Rachel Nichols
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“I am the biggest klutz on set. I honestly don’t think I have ever been as klutzy as when I’m on set. People call me ‘Grace’ ironically because I’m not graceful. It’s ridiculous.” Laura Marano
- “If I’m at a party, I can put on some crazy dance moves. However, it’s not synchronized, beautiful or choreographed like a ballet dancer. I’d love to be graceful like that.” Sierra McCormick
- “If we have a situation where a man is particularly graceful in a sport that rewards grace – say, for example, figure skating – why is it that we don’t say to the man, ‘Well, you’re too feminine to compete?’… I don’t understand why we don’t find it offensive also to say to a women who’s very strong, ‘You’re too masculine to compete.’ ” Alice Dreger
