Тhe gentle overcomes the rigid. The slow overcomes the…

Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft…

— Laozi

That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.

— Laozi

The weak overcomes the strong. The soft overcomes the hard. Everybody in the world knows this, still nobody makes use of it.

— Laozi

“The soft overcomes the hard; and the weak the strong.”

— Lao Tzu

The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.

— Marianne Moore

In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the…

— Laozi

Always remember that the true meaning of Budo is that soft overcomes hard, small overcomes large.

— Mas Oyama

If you want to shrink something, you must first allow it to expand. If you want to get rid of something, you must first…

— Laozi

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

— Virginia Woolf

The more you plan and the more rigid you are, it takes away from your experience

— Matt Prior

I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.

— Malcolm Bradbury

India's rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.

— Steven Rattner

Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories…

— Flannery O'Connor

You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid.

— Tom Stoppard

Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined…

— F. Sionil Jose