Top 34 Best Persuading Quotes

#1. The person who has been accustomed to subdue men by force will be less inclined to the trouble of convincing or persuading them.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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#2. Next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.

Arthur Ransome

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#3. Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and they are good ones, which would probably end up persuading me. But hasn't the time come when we should stop being frightened even to put the question?

Richard Dawkins

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#4. Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and influences users to perform the behavior.

B. J. Fogg

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#5. Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience.

Maurice Saatchi

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#6. If you want to get men to act reasonably, you must set about persuading them in a maniacal manner.

Aldous Huxley

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#7. Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous.

Thomas Carlyle

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#8. Apologetics is about persuading people that there is a door to another world - a door that perhaps they never realized existed. Evangelism is about helping people to open that door and enter into the new world that lies beyond.

Alister E. McGrath

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#9. The one and only method of teaching men the true religion was established by Divine Providence for the whole world, and for all times: that is, by persuading the understanding through reasons, and by gently attracting or exhorting the will.

Bartolome De Las Casas

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#10. I can sell anything to anyone. That is actually my superpower. I am really good at negotiating and persuading.

Patrick Rothfuss

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#11. I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.

E. O. Wilson

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#12. The Orgasmic Death Gimmick is rather complicated. It could be called the whole birth-death cycle of action, persuading people that birth and death are realities.

William S. Burroughs

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#13. Remember how Paul and Barnabas urged this upon the Jews of Antioch, 'persuading them to continue in the grace of God' (Acts 13:43; Gal. 5:4; Titus 2:11; 1 Peter 5:12).

Horatius Bonar

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#14. It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!

Edwin Land

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#15. I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if it's just a matter of conning the public. Actually, it's a matter of persuading the public, and in my experience, usually, the public gets it right.

Tony Blair

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#16. The basic paradox about sex is that it always seems to be offering more than it can deliver. A glimpse of a girl undressing through a lighted bedroom window induces a vision of ecstatic delight, but in the actual process of persuading the girl into bed, the vision somehow evaporates.

Colin Wilson

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#17. Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the
American political elite from the beginning.

Gore Vidal

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#18. Internet and government is Topic A in every nation, all around the world. There is the question of getting the Internet built. That involves persuading government to have regulatory policies. It involves new technology to bring the Internet to rural places.

Vint Cerf

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#19. SELLING HAS BEEN DEFINED AS: THE ACT OF PERSUADING OR CONVINCING SOMEONE TO BUY YOUR PRODUCT, SERVICE, OR IDEA.

Mike Kaplan

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#20. When I went into the publishing industry, many women talked about the difficulty they had in persuading their families to let them go to college. They educated the boys, and the girls had to struggle.

Toni Morrison

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#21. Do they merit vitriol, even a drop of it? Yes, because they corrupt the young, persuading them that the mature world, which produced Beethoven and Schweitzer, sets an even higher value on the transient anodynes of youth than does youth itself ... They are the Hollow Men. They are electronic lice.

Anthony Burgess

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#22. You'd have a better chance persuading someone to change their sexual orientation than reaching people who have rendered themselves so deaf and blind.

Epictetus

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#23. The rhetorician need not know the truth about things; he has only to discover some way of persuading the ignorant that he has more knowledge than those who know.

Plato

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#24. I never thought I'd see the day when you'd be persuading us to break rules, said Ron.

J.K. Rowling

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#25. King John won't need any persuading that the French have a hand in this. From what I've heard, if a bean gives him a bellyache he swears it was a French one.

Karen Maitland

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#26. People rich enough to redecorate every 10 months are certainly careless with antique furniture. I found four 1760 French side chairs, tapestry seats intact. Claiming them proved easier than persuading any cabdriver to transport the things.

Allan Gurganus

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#27. A God's strength lay in persuading others that they are weak.

Lionel Suggs

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#28. I'm with you, networking is miserable. Whenever I find myself at a dinner party where people are networking I immediately focus on the dog, and if the host doesn't have one, I focus on persuading them to get a dog.

Jon Acuff

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#29. Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, in order to impress others who don't care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.

Victor Papanek

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#30. The way you get leaders to care about issues of conscience is to apply political pressure. It's less a question of persuading leaders directly and more trying to build a social movement that holds their feet to the fire.

Nicholas D. Kristof

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

Tertullian

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#32. Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.

John Cage

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#33. RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth. As a call to the unconverted the rack never had any particular efficacy, and is now held in light popular esteem.

Ambrose Bierce

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#34. The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in society.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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