Quotes about persuasion




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"Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on persuasion    Share


"To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on persuasion    Share

"Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life -- there, if one must speak out, the real man."

Aurelius, Marcus on persuasion    Share

"Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy."

Carlyle, Thomas on persuasion
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"Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world."

Carlyle, Thomas on persuasion    Share

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

Chesterfield, Lord on persuasion    Share

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

Chesterfield, Lord on persuasion    Share

"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."

Cicero, Marcus T. on persuasion    Share

"He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense."

Conrad, Joseph on persuasion
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"It is nobler to convert souls, than to conquer kingdoms."

Debonnaire, Louis on persuasion    Share

"I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on persuasion    Share

"That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on persuasion    Share

"For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction."

Frame, Janet on persuasion    Share

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

Franklin, Benjamin on persuasion
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"Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason."

Franklin, Benjamin on persuasion    Share

"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."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on persuasion    Share

"People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on persuasion    Share

"To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on persuasion    Share

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on persuasion    Share

"The art of pleasing consists in being pleased."

Hazlitt, William on persuasion    Share

"The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders."

Hoffer, Eric on persuasion    Share

"The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing."

Homer on persuasion    Share

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

Horace on persuasion    Share

"As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors."

James, William on persuasion    Share

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"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."

Johnson, Samuel on persuasion    Share

"There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves."

Junius on persuasion    Share

"When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith."

Junius on persuasion    Share

"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."

Lincoln, Abraham on persuasion
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"If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend."

Lincoln, Abraham on persuasion    Share

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

Macaulay, Thomas B. on persuasion    Share

"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."

Morely, John on persuasion    Share

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"I don't know the rules of grammar. If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language."

Ogilvy, David on persuasion    Share

"People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found out by others."

Pascal, Blaise on persuasion    Share

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

Patterson, John H. on persuasion    Share

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

Pell, Claiborne on persuasion    Share

"Persuasion is better than force."

Proverb on persuasion    Share

"That which proves too much, proves nothing!"

Proverb on persuasion    Share

"When a heart is on fire, sparks always fly out of the mouth."

Proverb on persuasion
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