Best 183 quotes in «persuasion quotes» category

Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.

Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.

But if Christianity really gives peace, and we really want peace, patriotism is a survival from barbarous times, which must not only not be evoked and educated, as we now do, but which must be eradicated by all means, by means of preaching, persuasion, contempt, and ridicule.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.

Gentle persuasion succeeds where force fails.

His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.

In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned.

Influence is just persuasion in slow motion.

Leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

I loved Thirteen and I loved Pretty Persuasion, and was always just so blown away by her [Rachel Evan Wood]. It was nice, and sadly, it is so rare.

If what the philosophers say be true, that all men's actions proceed from one source; that as they assent from a persuasion that a thing is so, and dissent from a persuasion that it is not, and suspend their judgment from a persuasion that it is uncertain, so likewise they seek a thing from a persuasion that it is for their advantage.

Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education, seek to improve institutions we deem defective. But let us, in doing so, respect the orderly processes of the law. Any other course enthrones tyrants and dooms freedom.

One of the best ways to persuade others is by listening to them.

Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.

Ninety percent of selling is conviction and 10 percent is persuasion.

Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.

There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.

The talent of insinuation is more useful than that of persuasion, as everybody is open to insinuation, but scarce any to persuasion.

There are lives lived for love, and lives lived for art. We, happy band, have chosen the later persuasion.

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

There is arguably something wrong with a method of persuasion that cannot pass the test of publicity.

Too much zeal offends where indirection works.

The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.

To please people is a great step towards persuading them.

Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.

Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.

The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.

Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.

ADAMANT, n. A mineral frequently found beneath a corset. Soluble in solicitate of gold.

A candidate with no experience they would package as a citizen politician, a lifetime hack as an elder statesman.

A dog is one of the few remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.

Again, it is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs. And if it be objected that one who uses such power of speech unjustly might do great harm, that is a charge which may be made in common against all good things except virtue, and above all against the things that are most useful, as strength, health, wealth, generalship. A man can confer the greatest of benefits by a right use of these, and inflict the greatest of injuries by using them wrongly.

A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears.

Also, even if technocrats provide reasonable estimates of a risk, which itself is an iffy enterprise, they cannot dictate what level of risk people ought to accept. People might object to a nuclear power plant that has a minuscule risk of a meltdown not because they overestimate the risk, but because they feel that the cost of a catastrophe, no matter how remote, are too dreadful. And of course any of these trade-offs may be unacceptable if people perceive that the benefits would go to the wealthy and powerful while they themselves absorb the risks. Nonetheless, understanding the difference between our best science and our ancient ways of thinking can only make our individual and collective decisions better informed. It can help scientists and journalists explain a new technology in the face of the most common misunderstandings. And it can help all of us understand the technology so that we can accept or reject it on grounds that we can justify to ourselves and to others.

A laconic Texas lawmaker declined to use his considerable influence to intervene in a loud dispute between his colleagues. When asked why not, he said, "They're not voting. If they're not voting, they're not passing any laws. If they're not passing any laws, they're not hurting anybody.

All great people had critics but they still believe in the beauty of their dreams, fully persuaded to stay focused and determined for the realisation of their dreams.

A long list of propositions does not necessarily make a coherent argument

Although Martin Luther's theological message was couched as an exhortation to all Christian people, his frame of reference, the human experiences on which he drew and his emotional sympathies, or almost entirely German.

and the more I saw, the more I found to admire.

A plot is a thousand times more unsettling than an argument, which may be answered.

Your lips are my persuasion, your love will be my cure.