Persuasion Quotes

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

The notion that you would initiate a new product without preparing the way by persuasion and advertising and salesmanship is fantastic. It's an integral part of the system.

To please people is a great step towards persuading them.

Elegant persuasion is when the other person thought it was their idea.

It's much easier to be convincing if you care about your topic. Figure out what's important to you about your message and speak from the heart.

What is common to our societies is the development into a managed mass society, with big bureaucracy, managing people. The Russians do it by force. We do it by persuasion.

Persuasion isn't about the people you disagree with. It's about the fulcrum; the persuadable audience.

Because, Cat, it’s the feminine persuasion that’s always the deadliest.

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

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

One in whom persuasion and belief Had ripened into faith, and faith become A passionate intuition.

It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.

It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.

The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who they are, and how to persuade them.

In politics, if you're explaining, you're loosing.

Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.

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

Most people, especially activists, recognize their differences with others rather than what they have in common and that leads to frustration more than persuasion.

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

Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade . . .

It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.

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.

Too much zeal offends where indirection works.

Clarity (always) trumps persuasion

[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.

A companion's words of persuasion are effective.

A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips.

Persuasion, indeed, is a kind of force. It consists in showing a person the consequences of his actions. It is, in a word, force applied through the mind.

If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.

To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

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

I am not in love / But I'm open to persuasion.

We're all subject to the daily pressures of consumer persuasion.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

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

What happens when two people talk? That is really the basic question here, because, that's the basic context in which all persuasion takes place.

Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.

I think I have a really diverse audience. I've had people from all sorts of sexual persuasions.

Let us reject the spirit of making proselytes to particular creeds by any other means than persuasion.

Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion, a persuasion, an excuse, a refuge; never a check.

For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on their wing; In his every syllable Lurketh nature veritable.

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

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

In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at least our equals.

The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama?ridicule and reproach?pleading and persuasion.

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

I had also read somewhere that if a man didn't truly believe or understand what he was espousing, somehow he could do a more convincing job

A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently.

I have, as it were, constructed a lay-figure for the purposes of a demonstration which I desired to be as rapid and as impressive as possible.