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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