Persuasion Quotations

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.

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

I listen. I meet with everybody, I don't care what their political persuasion is - whether it be a labor union or small-business folks or individuals who have problems. But I meet with everybody and listen.

A lot of people think that persuasion is all about values and aligning values. I largely disagree. I think persuasion generally, and political persuasion more particularly, has much more to do with explaining in new ways and connecting dots in new ways than just invoking emotions and values.

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.

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.

Art's power of persuasion resides in the small personal details of one's own story, and if it weren't for my struggle with dyslexia, I doubt I'd ever have become a writer or known how to teach others to write.

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

Moral persuasion over a period of time makes a difference, but we shouldn't be naive to think that just because we raise it in a meeting it will make all those problems go away. It won't and it doesn't.

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

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

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

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

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

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

We believe you can achieve much more through persuasion and by encouraging China to open up to the outside world than by turning your back on China,

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

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

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

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

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.

I am dying, but with a strong hope and persuasion that my country will gain her independence.

Businesses have to make gestures that go beyond words. Persuasion no longer works.

I have never experienced any weather that rough in the size of the boat that I was in. I could not control the boat. I did the best I could for about 10 to 11 hours to keep it afloat until we were evacuated. Everyone was seasick. Everyone had a loss of energy. It took a lot of persuasion on my part to get people into their survival suits, but the bottom line is we survived.

If Bill O'Reilly is calling you a far-left critic, in my book, no matter what your political persuasion is, that's probably - that probably means you're doing a good job.

Jobs has said nary a word on behalf of important social issues, reserving his talents of persuasion for selling Apple products.

Lasting influence is achieved through persuasion not coercion.

I think we can work together with the port on this. Let's use community persuasion to help make this work.

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

Gentle persuasion succeeds where force fails.

Persuasion is better than force.

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

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.

Whenever he met a great man he groveled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can do.

This was about contributing Hollywood's creative imagination and their persuasion skills to help in this war effort so that one day Americans can lead normal lives again,

What is helping the dollar is the moral persuasion of the central banks. There's been contact between the European Central Bank and national central banks that make up the ECB urging calm, urging a block on any kind of speculative trading. The Federal Reserve has also weighted in and asked that dollar trading be limited. I think that will support the currency.

Even if the committee carried the message in the exact words with no words missing, but left out the persuasion of gesture, the supplicating tone, and the beseeching looks which inform the words and give them life, where then were the power of the arguments and whom would it convince?

The secret is to always let the other man have your way.

Advertising isn't a science. It's persuasion. And persuasion is an art.

The burden of persuasion is on the president to establish the program's legality.

It sounds great from an institutional standpoint. Maybe the Court could do a better job of persuasion. But it won't come overnight. If Roberts leads by example and writes clearly and talks to his colleagues, it may happen.

It will take a lot of persuasion ... that's why I am not promising a miracle at all. We should be prepared for any eventuality because these people will cling to these hostages tooth and nail, I'm sure.

exercised through patient diplomatic persuasion and coalition-building. We all need to understand that the United Nations is not a separate or alien entity, seeking to impose its agenda on others. The United Nations is us; it is you and me.

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

Call the bald man, ''Boy;'' make the sage thy toy; greet the youth with solemn face; praise the fat man for his grace.

He that winna be ruled by the rudder maun be ruled by the rock.

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

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

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.

A companion's words of persuasion are effective.

The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.

College students now share the general public's more mixed view of the president, and Senator Kerry is benefiting from that shift. Still, these are highly independent voters who are open to persuasion and it would be in the interests of both parties to court them aggressively.

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

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

It is well for us if we have learned to listen to the sweet persuasion of the Beatitudes, but there are crises in all lives which require also the emphatic "Thou shalt not" of the decalogue which the founders wrote on the gateposts of their commonwealth.

Leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

Ninety percent of selling is conviction and 10 percent is 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.

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

At the end of reasons comes persuasion.

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.

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

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

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

A person under the firm persuasion that he can command resources virtually has them.

To please people is a great step towards persuading them.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Influence is just persuasion in slow motion.

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

Advertising is the art of persuasion.

Persuasion is not a science but an art

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

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

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

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

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

One in whom persuasion and beliefHad ripened into faith, and faith becomeA passionate intuition.

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

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

You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

A firm persuasion of the superintendence of Providence over all our concerns is absolutely necessary to our happiness.

He that has truth in his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue

Too much zeal offends where indirection works.

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

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.

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

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.