Persuasion Quotes

Persuasion Quote of the day

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.

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.

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.

The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

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

We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.

I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is resorted to other than moral 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.

The way is not always easy, but in order to bring a work through to completion, you will need a strong character, a broad foundation of knowledge and an enormous force of persuasion.

When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment. This is the modus operandi of a mutual frustration society.

The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.

I answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in courts of law and other assemblies, as I was just now saying, and about the just and unjust.

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

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

Every time a message seems to grab us, and we think, 'I just might try it,' we are at the nexus of choice and persuasion that is advertising.

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 used all diligence to arrive at London and therefore I now gave my crew a certificate under my hand, of my free and willing return, without persuasion or force by any one or more of them.

The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

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.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

Real persuasion comes from putting more of you into everything you say. Words have an effect. Words loaded with emotion have a powerful effect.

Personally I do not resort to force - not even the force of law - to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion, and above all the influence of example - of fashion.

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 always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.

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.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

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

There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns.

It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.

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

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

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

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

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.

The Spirit never makes men the instruments of converting others until they feel that they cannot do it themselves; that their skill in argument, in persuasion, in management, avails nothing.