Be Soft But Not Weak Quotes

#1. Work-worn, on a gingham towel draped over the cupboard. "All of them stillborn." I smother a sigh with a smile, weak and resigned. He takes it regardless. "Yeah ... " He too smiles soft, a hand letting

Ann Voskamp

#2. Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep
Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each,
Even to the meanest; yea, a boon to all
Where pity is, for pity makes the world
Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.

Edwin Arnold

#3. The problem with a lot of people is that what they think is a virtue is actually a vice in disguise. It's much easier to convince yourself that you're reasonable and civilised, than soft and weak, isn't it?

Kevin Dutton

#4. Heat is a universal solvent, melting out of things their power of resistance, and sucking away and removing their natural strength with its fiery exhalations so that they grow soft, and hence weak, under its glow.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#5. People think kindness is a soft, weak, submissive influence when in reality it is the most potent, persuasive force in existence.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#6. The soft overcomes the hard; and the weak the strong.

Lao-Tzu

#7. Where the environment is too soft and luxurious and no strife is required for survival, not only are weak strains and individuals allowed to survive and encouraged to breed but the strong types also grow fat mentally and physically.

Madison Grant

#8. And that aroma of sex ... soft baby asparagus cut with a weak solution of Clorox.

Gregory Maguire

#9. Daniel, go home. Please. Her voice is soft and weak, but the message behind that sad, angelic voice is like a stab to my heart. I back away from the window, then kick the side of the house out of frustration. Or anger. Or sadness or . . . shit. All of it.

Colleen Hoover

#10. When you get a group of kids together, especially boys, the psychology of those kids requires that they find a weak kid or a sensitive kid or a soft kid.

Wil Wheaton

#11. The rigid and big belong below. The soft and weak belong above.

Laozi

#12. There's nothing as weak and soft as water, yet it will eat away the hardest stone.

Nicholas C. Rossis

#13. Dad said High Lonesome, as the area was known, wasn't a place for the soft of head or the weak of heart, and he said that was why he and I made out just fine there, because we were both tough nuts.

Jeannette Walls

#14. Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong.

Edwin Arnold

#15. The hard and stiff are death's companions. The soft and weak are life's companions.

Laozi