Persuasion Quotes

Enchantment and seduction were fine means of persuasion, but when time is short, an awkward but quick concussion could better serve a girl's purpose.

Gentle persuasion succeeds where force fails.

Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind, from a vain persuasion that those who have no dependence except on their favor will have no attachment except to the person of their benefactor.

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.

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

You have your season, and you have but your season; neither can you lie down in peace, until you have some persuasion that your work as well as your life is at an end.

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.

People forget that there is a big difference between coercion and persuasion. The idea that evangelism is coercive is nonsense.

In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.

Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.

Advertising is the art of persuasion.

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

The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.

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

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

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

In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of a man who was ignorant of music.

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

People in every country should be free to choose and live their faith based upon the persuasion of the mind, and the heart, and the soul. This tolerance is essential for religion to thrive.

Violence is not the only means of persuasion.

Presentations are the most amazing persuasion tool available in organizations today

Facts and credibility only support persuasion.

We should respect each other as rational beings by trying to achieve our goals through reason and persuasion rather than threats and coercion.

[A] sick mind cannot be cured by the sheer force of persuasion.

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

It would behoove you to have your thesis finely tuned and the logical arguments utilized in support of it tightly woven into a credible, and creatively persuasive tapestry.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

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

Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.

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

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

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.

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

Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear.

At the end of reasons comes persuasion.

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

Persuasion is not a science but an art

Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion. They are quite in accord with the procedures of brainwashing.

Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends.

Photography is a powerful medium of persuasion and propaganda. It has that ring of truth when all the time, in artful hands, it can make any statement the manipulator chooses.

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.

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

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

From him [Death] alone of all the powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

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

In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.

Maybe tomorrow when He looks down Every green field and every town All of his children every nation There'll be peace and good, brotherhood... Crystal blue persuasion.

The simple, daily influences of prayer, persuasion, and promoting of godly values are the most powerful tools a mother can use to unleash the potential of her children.

To please people is a great step towards persuading them.

Persuasion occurs when trust and confidence meet belief, risk tolerance, and safety.