Never promise more than you can perform.
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You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
Interpretation
Kindness can achieve more than aggression or force ever could.
This quote suggests that when we approach challenges and others with kindness, we can achieve our goals more effectively than if we were to use force or aggression. It highlights the power of empathy and understanding in influencing people and situations positively, reinforcing the idea that compassion often leads to better outcomes than coercion.
In practice
In a motivational speech, emphasizing the importance of kindness in leadership.
Never promise more than you can perform.
Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
What a tragedy is help where it harms what it supports!
The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.
You're betraying your whole life if you don't say what you think - and you don't say it honestly and bluntly.
Being able to articulate the gospel with accuracy is one thing; having its truth captivate your soul is quite another.
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.
We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail.
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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