Best 183 quotes in «persuasion quotes» category

Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language of sorrow draw forth the tear of compassion, but nothing can reach the heart that is steeled with prejudice.

You can lead and motivate people without a certificate or title, what you need to do is to tell people a compelling secret that was only known to you.

You can LOBBY anyone. It is the great equalizer." – Chief of Staff Russell Jackson

You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.

You can only manage to convince a person to admit to being wrong, not ignorant, arrogant, or stupid.

You're welcome to as much wine as you can drink, Ares." ...[Ares] watched two bare-breasted women stroll by. "Am I welcome to your worshippers as well?" "If they'll have you. Force yourself on anyone, though, and the cat gets to gnaw on your anatomy." Dionysos nodded to Agria, who prowled around the crowd. "Those are the rules." Ares smirked. ... "No problem there. I'm very persuasive." Hermes shook his head at Dionysos and mouthed in comical exaggeration, *No, he's not.*

You perceive the force of a word. He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense... Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

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

A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

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.

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

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

Gentle persuasion succeeds where force fails.

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.

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

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

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.

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

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.

Influence is just persuasion in slow motion.

Leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

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

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.

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

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Too much zeal offends where indirection works.

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.

To please people is a great step towards persuading them.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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