Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments.
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Use soft words and hard arguments.
ENGLISH PROVERB Use soft words and hard arguments.
UNKNOWN Soft words are hard arguments.
THOMAS FULLER Soft words win hard hearts.
PROVERB A devil on being caught for his evil thought and wrong doings gets the help sought of his buddies as...
ANUJ SOMANY A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER If your words are soft and sweet, they won't be as hard to swallow if you have to eat them.
SOURCE UNKNOWN A disgrace. If it's hard it's hard, if it's soft it's soft.
GAI WATERHOUSE By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to w...
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.
JOHN BARRYMORE He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The ...
JOSEPH CONRAD I've sometimes thought. . . that the difference between us and the English is that the Scotch are ha...
JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE He could be flint-hard, but he could also be soft.
JAMES PACKER Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your adverti...
WILLIAM BERNBACH Soft data, hard conflicts.
GERHARD KOCHER Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.
KING SOLOMON Memorizing lines isn't really hard. Only with really hard words and stuff.
ANDREW LAWRENCE Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH When you feel like throwing rocks, make sure they're ones no one can throw back.
REBECCA MCKINSEY I'm fat and soft now. He's still lean and hard.
TREVOR WILSON The soft stuff is always harder than the hard stuff.
ROGER ENRICO A soft Tongue may strike hard.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Even if the committee carried the message in the exact words with no words missing, but left out the...
JOAN OF ARC Lord, make my words soft and tender for tomorrow I may have to eat them.
UNKNOWN Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.
UNKNOWN A hard head makes a soft ass.
WILL LEAMON There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign ...
TUCKER CARLSON He leaned in then and kissed me again, sweet and soft and tender, silencing my arguments and stealin...
KIMBERLY DERTING A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
BIBLE A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up
anger.
BIBLE ... But my voice is too soft. The wind picks up my words and swallows them whole.
HAFSAH LAZIAF You can't plan on hitting the ball soft. He threw it soft, so I hit it soft. They were catching the ...
EMIL BROWN When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid's perfu...
CHARLES KINGSLEY As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
H. L. MENCKEN As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN He talked hard, but he had a soft heart.
DICKIE MOORE Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be s...
WILLIAM BERNBACH I had a very hard father. I had two sisters. He was soft on them and hard on me.
ALBERT GUBAY You are a mousetrap of a friend, all soft cheese and hard springs
CHRIS CLEAVE Hold a true friend with both hands. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria
AFRICAN PROVERBS God gives nuts to those with no teeth. -Arabic proverb.
ARABIC PROVERB As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like."
CICERO Lord make my words soft today, for tomorrow I may have to eat them
DAVE HAIGLER The words you speak today should be soft and tender. . . for tomorrow you may have to eat them.
UNKNOWN A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS This love is hard core. Let's make it soft porn.
ARZUM UZUN I've had a few arguments with the mayor, and it's pretty hard to talk him out of a position, ... He'...
MICHAEL GOODWIN Arguments with furniture are rarely productive.
KEHLOG ALBRAN A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. Proverbs 15:1
BIBLE My food groups are as follows: You've got your hards, your softs, and your chocolates. For example: ...
ALAN ROBERT NEAL A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS Open rebuke is better than secret love.
BIBLE Your lies are like a silent fart. Can't see 'em, but
I can smell 'em.
ERIC JEROME DICKEY A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up the...
GEORGE ORWELL Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
JAVAN There are all kinds of suckers: soft suckers, hard, rapid and slow. When they suck hard, they get to...
ATHENA VOULOUMANOS There's no such thing as 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' There's only 'smart sell' and 'stupid sell.'
LEO BURNETT Thinking to bite something soft, he found it hard. [Catching a
Tartar]
UNKNOWN As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft. -H. L. Mencken.
H. L. MENCKEN Being Hard-headed is fine. But make sure you are soft-hearted.
AARON CONN Never love with all your heart, it only ends in breaking. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB Never love with all your heart, it only ends in breaking. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB The soft-spoken words fell off the side of the bed, emptying to the floor like powder.
MARKUS ZUSAK It is a hard thing to be married to a man of learning that must always be having arguments.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals...
PETER SINGER Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.
ALI IBN ABI TALIB Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.
JOHNNY BENCH Thinking soo hard on her soft eyes and memories of the signs that it's over. It's over.
JEFF BUCKLEY There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not wi...
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN Aim high,
fight hard.
Never aim low,
never fight soft.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. ...
LAO-TZU (600 B.C.) Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.'
Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being ali...
TONI MORRISON People say keeping it real is a hard thing to do. Keeping it real is easy. Being fake and being soft...
TRICK DADDY Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS There is no such thing as 'soft sell' and 'hard sell.' There is only 'smart sell' and 'stupid sell.'
CHARLES BROWDER Leaders look out for people who can criticize them constructively and rebuke them reasonably.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Be patient and you will finally win, for a soft tongue can break hard bones. (Proverbs 28:13)
BIBLE If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.
CAROLYN KENMORE Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.
LEIGH BARDUGO Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage)
ELIZABETH GILBERT An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In Shoshone, there's a saying. It's a long one, and it doesn't have an English equivalent, so bear w...
ROSE CHRISTO Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
OSCAR WILDE When someone is counting out
gold for you, don't look at your hands,
or the gold. Look at ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI It's in the difficult times that we're growing and you can't just rebuke everything hard...
JOEL OSTEEN Math people are math people. When you approach them with investments and business, they don't ju...
PAUL WACHTER All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the ani...
PETER SINGER One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left a...
BIBLE They're supposed to be soft and gooey and chewy. At most places you buy them, they're hard as a rock...
LESLIE BETTS A proverb and a by-word among all people,
BIBLE Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb
JAPANESE PROVERB Christ of his gentleness, / Thirsting and hungering / Walked in the wilderness; / Soft words of grac...
ROBERT GRAVES Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke
WILLIAM FEATHER Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.
WILLIAM FEATHER Though there are both hard and soft business elements in building organizational capabilities. Still...
PEARL ZHU Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.
JOHNNY BENCH
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