Soft Approach Quotes

Always be a little kinder than necessary.

The great mind knows the power of gentleness.

Knowledge is important, but only if we're being kind and gentle with ourselves as we work to discover who we are.

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Kindness effects more than severity.

Everything has two handles; the one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to be touched. If then your brother do you an injury, do not take it by the hot hard handle, by representing to yourself all the aggravating circumstances of the fact; but look rather on the soft side, and extenuate it as much as is possible, by considering the nearness of the relation, and the long friendship and familiarity between you--obligations to kindness which a single provocation ought not to dissolve. And thus you will take the accident by its manageable handle.

Be Hard on the issue, Soft on the person.

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.'

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

We must be kind and gentle gardeners with people and nature.

Let them up easy.

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

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

I always had a much softer approach to my interviews and promos. I was not so much that wrestler that was yelling at the screen; I was always the one that was talking to my fans.

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.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

Constant, gentle pressure is my preferred technique for leadership, guidance, and coaching.

It is in your self-interest to find a way to be very tender.

Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.

Soft and faire goes farre.

I was taught by my parents that people who are loud don't have anything to say. I've found if you're suggesting quite big changes, a quiet style may be reassuring.

Evil comes up softly like a flower.

Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.