Persuasion Quotes

To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for the world at exactly the same time - is one of the great triumphs of human existence.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

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

Hitler's strength as a leader is that he almost always works through the power of his persuasion; rarely does he command.

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

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

Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.

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

Leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

With plants, persuasion is better than force.

I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience.

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares.

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

For, besides what has been said, it should be borne in mind that the temper of the multitude is fickle, and that while it is easy to persuade them of a thing, it is hard to fix them in that persuasion

In war, mere appearances have had all the effect of realities; and that a person, under a firm persuasion that he can command resources, virtually has them; that very prospect inspiring him with hope and boldness in his exertions.

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

The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.

Influence is just persuasion in slow motion.

We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.

I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time.

We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.

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.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

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.

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.

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

The secret of all true persuasion is to induce the person to persuade himself.

Persuasion is better than force.

In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.

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.

Advertising is the art of persuasion.

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

Gentle persuasion succeeds where force fails.

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.

Facts and credibility only support persuasion.

Violence is not the only means of persuasion.

Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.

He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.

Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?

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

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

My powers of persuasion are only as strong as the bullshit I have to back it up. - Charley Davidson

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

Persuasion is not a science but an art

[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.