Top 40 Power Of Persuasion Quotes
#1. I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time.
Jenny Mollen
#2. I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.
Yitzhak Shamir
#4. When you collect bad loans ... you sure learn a lot about making good ones. You also learn a lot about the power of persuasion, persistence and desperation.
John Stumpf
#6. He realized, even if she didn't, that John possessed great
wisdom as well as great power. Sometimes, making a real human connection was more effective than the power of persuasion and the threats of a sociopath put together. And that was totally awesome.
Natasha Larry
#7. 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.
Philip Schultz
#8. The Didots created happiness and power, or in this case, pain and sadness ... but only within its subject's mind.
The power it held was real, but it was not a physical power. It was the power of persuasion, the power of illusion.
Mr. Bradshaw was a genius.
Embee
#9. Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it.
Patrick Suskind
#11. In spite of his Cold War credentials, Kennedy still believed in the power of words.
Stephen L. Carter
#12. Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.
Richard Mentor Johnson
#13. To be inspired is to be moved in an extraordinary manner by the power or Spirit of God to act, speak, or think what is holy, justand true; [Enthusiasm is] A Full, but false persuasion in a man that he is inspired.
Henry More
#14. You perceive the force of a word. 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 ... Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
Joseph Conrad
#15. Descriptions all fall flat and tame unless the Holy Ghost fills them with life and power
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#16. I only say this because a positive evolution happened in my life when I realized healthy relationships happen best between healthy people.
Donald Miller
#17. Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.
Anne Frank
#18. [Everything you write is] not simply a collection of words, but a means of influence not to be taken lightly. Let your recipient's emotions be the gondola, and your words, its gondolier.
A.J. Darkholme
#19. What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.
John Stott
#20. After attacking the sacred majesty of Kings, I shall scarcely excite surprise by adding my firm persuasion that every profession, in which great subordination of rank constitutes its power, is highly injurious to morality.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#21. I don't hate you, you idiot. I'm in love with you. That's why I'm panicking!" She marched to the door and yelled, "And our children will not be freaks!"
"Except their mother already is," her father yelled back.
Shelly Laurenston
#22. Which animal the ruler should impersonate depends strongly on what animals the followers are.
Geert Hofstede
#23. The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.
Steven Biko
#24. I have learned nothing in twenty years that would suggest that evil people can be rapidly influenced by any means other than raw power. They do not respond, at least in the short run, to either gentle kindness or any form of spiritual persuasion with which I am familiar.
M. Scott Peck
#25. We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.
John Owen
#26. The spiritual power in the gospel is denied when we augment or adjusting gospel into no gospel at all. When we doubt the message alone is the power of God for salvation we start adding or subtracting, trusting our own powers of persuasion or presentation.
Matt Chandler
#27. Hitler's strength as a leader is that he almost always works through the power of his persuasion; rarely does he command.
Rudolf Hess
#28. The great offensives of the future would be psychological, and . . . the most deadly weapon in the world was the power of mass-persuasion . . . In
Nicholas Rankin
#29. Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.
Edmund Beecher Wilson
#30. A wise old man taught me that diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power. Persuasion, not force, works best and lasts longest.
Robin Hobb
#31. According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979.
George Will
#32. 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.
Herman Kahn
#33. The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion. Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.
John Stott
#34. I've gotten more press than any entrepreneur could dream of - certainly more than I deserve - and I've never had a public relations firm working for me.
Jason Calacanis
#35. When you give people a choice, they believe they have power.
A.J. Darkholme
#36. Pimping was the ultimate power play. My most powerful tools of persuasion however, were charm and sex."~Jesse
Jeri Estes
#37. Words without poetry lack passion; words without passion lack persuasion; words without persuasion lack power.
Brennan Manning
#38. Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another, and bump up against one another, in the course of ordinary life.
Michael Sandel
#39. The human race is a monotonous thing. Most people work most of the time in order to live, and the little freedom they have left over frightens them so, that they will do anything to get rid of it. Oh, the regimentation of mankind!
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#40. They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.
Desiderius Erasmus
