Gentle Persuasion Quotes

We're both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We're connected to reality by the same line. All I have to do is quietly draw it towards me.

I too realize that the less I preach the more likely I am to be heard.

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.'

And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.

Kindness is more persuasive than force.

We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in.

Gentleness succeeds better than violence.

A noble man is led by woman's gentle words.

With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.

They should not be knocked down with a bludgeon. They should have their threats cut with a feather.

Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.

I have become so great as I am because I have won men's hearts by gentleness and kindliness.

It's somewhat of a contradiction, .. I guess the quieter the voice, the more necessary it is to push it. It's not going to leap out at you and scream. I also can't control how a book is marketed. To say the book marketing is aggressive, fine, I'm happy with that. Push the book. That doesn't mean that my personality or writing style changes.

Art is really whispering, not shouting.

Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.

If we do not commend the Gospel to people by our holy walk and conversation, we shall not win them to Christ. Some little act of kindness will perhaps do more to influence them than any number of long sermons.

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

The challenge was that it was harder to be subtle than strident.

Sometimes you've gotta hide the medicine in the food. You can't slap somebody in the face with facts, all the time. It's too harsh.

To wheedle and coax is safer than to command.

If you want someone’s attention, whisper.

The power of gentleness is irresistible.

I like being moved. I don't like being pushed.

E? loquence quipersuade par douceur, non par empire, en tyran, non en roi. Eloquence should persuade gently, not by force or like a tyrant or king.