Top 100 Quotes About Persuasion
#1. I only have disdain for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He raised taxes and has increased regulations. What else is new? He's a bully who wants to micro-manage people's lives by mandate, not persuasion.
Mark Skousen
#2. 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.
Edward Levi
#3. Persuasion occurs when trust and confidence meet belief, risk tolerance, and safety.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#4. Elegant persuasion is when the other person thought it was their idea.
Marshall Sylver
#5. Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
Henry David Thoreau
#6. 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.
John Key
#7. We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.
Christopher Fry
#8. 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.
John Owen
#9. What is illiberal is not persuasion but imposition of one's views.
Richard Dawkins
#10. It was about as easy getting the Statue of Liberty to spread cunny, which did take some dynamite persuasion.
William T. Vollmann
#11. but his long thin fingers moved with grace and persuasion, as if giving to the words a shape that his voice could not.
John Williams
#12. Robert Cialdini, author of one of my favorite books, Influence, the Psychology of Persuasion, writes: "A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they
Lior Suchard
#14. Sometimes Jane wished she were good at diplomatic speeches. She wished she'd mastered coquettish looks and innocent smiles. But she hadn't. She was singularly bad at those forms of persuasion. She was good at handing out money and opinions.
Courtney Milan
#15. I have been Europe's last hope. She proved incapable of refashioning herself by means of voluntary reform. She showed herself impervious to charm and persuasion. To take her I had to use violence. (26th February)
Adolf Hitler
#16. The Spirit never makes men the instruments of converting others until they feel that they cannot do it themselves; that their skill in argument, in persuasion, in management, avails nothing.
Charles Hodge
#17. Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#18. One of the things I most admire about America is they have created a genuine melting pot society, a country of opportunity; you can be of any religion, colour, ethnicity, persuasion and make it to the top of your chosen field. And that's something I admire about America and hope they continue with.
David Cameron
#19. 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
#20. Hitler's strength as a leader is that he almost always works through the power of his persuasion; rarely does he command.
Rudolf Hess
#21. Meaningless sex is like eating the worm at the bottom of a tequila bottle: fun in the moment, but not something you'd want to repeat over and over. - MELANTHE OF THE DEIE SORCERI, QUEEN OF PERSUASION
Kresley Cole
#22. A weak spirit which is always open to persuasion, first one way and then the other, can never be relied upon.
Jane Austen
#24. 'You can't stop me. Your word voodoo, it doesn't work on me. Right? So how do you think you're going to-'
Eliot produced a pistol. He didn't seem to pull it from anywhere. He just suddenly had it.
Wil's eyes stung.
'See?' Eliot put away the gun. 'There are all kinds of persuasion.'
Max Barry
#25. 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
#26. Businesses have to make gestures that go beyond words. Persuasion no longer works.
John Gerzema
#27. I used all diligence to arrive at London and therefore I now gave my crew a certificate under my hand, of my free and willing return, without persuasion or force by any one or more of them.
Henry Hudson
#28. 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.
Michael Hastings
#29. [T]hese friends were of the female persuasion, and while by and large they were bi and large, they still represented potential threats on [her] feminine radar.
Thomm Quackenbush
#31. She understood the specific kind of appreciation that comes to a person witnessing a thing of beauty alone, how the spectacle seems to sit whole inside the soul, undiminished by conversation, by any attempt at translation or persuasion.
Elizabeth Berg
#32. The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of opinion or of dissent which he so stridently demands for himself. He cannot trust democracy.
Robert Kennedy
#33. Presentations are the most amazing persuasion tool available in organizations today
Nancy Duarte
#35. Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.
Joseph Conrad
#36. 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.
Nick Hanauer
#37. My neighbour, or my servant, or my child, has done me an injury, and it is just that he should suffer an injury in return. Such is the doctrine which Jesus Christ summoned his whole resources of persuasion to oppose.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#38. Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.
Mark Twain
#39. We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.
John Owen
#40. The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.
William O. Douglas
#41. I am guilty of believing that the human race can be humanized and enriched in every spiritual inference through the saner and more beneficent processes of peaceful persuasion applied to material problems rather than through wars, riots and bloodshed.
Eugene V. Debs
#42. Political persuasion emerges at the intersection of the mental and the corporal. Traveling
David Eagleman
#43. Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.
Kenneth Burke
#44. 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.
Ellen Page
#45. The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.
Mark Skousen
#46. Gentle persuasion succeeds where force fails.
Aesop
#47. Persuasion is a strong but subdued outrider.
Harold Bloom
#48. Selling is a natural skill. It's developed as a child. You may know it as persuasion.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#49. Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.
Richard Mentor Johnson
#50. There are three ways of trying to win the young. There is persuasion, there is compulsion, and there is attraction. You can preach at them: that is a hook without a worm. You can say, You must volunteer, and that is of the devil. You can tell them, You are needed. That appeal hardly ever fails.
Kurt Hahn
#51. In the politics of consent, no victory is ever permanent unless the victor makes it firm on a base of persuasion.
Theodore H. White
#52. After many painful trials, which none can know, but those who are taught to relinquish a system in which they had been educated, I settled down in the full persuasion, that the immersion of a professing believer in Christ is the only Christian baptism.
Adoniram Judson
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. Name-calling will make you an enemy, not an ally, and if that is your objective, then persuasion is probably not what you were after in the first place.
Steven D. Levitt
#56. The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama?ridicule and reproach?pleading and persuasion.
William Safire
#57. In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance
Thomas Jefferson
#58. Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.
John Calvin
#59. 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.
David Whyte
#60. 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.
Jane Austen
#61. 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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#62. nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination. PERSUASION
Jane Austen
#63. [A] sick mind cannot be cured by the sheer force of persuasion.
Vincent De Paul
#64. Gradually I slid into the persuasion that these troubles of mine touching the scrivener, had been all predestinated from eternity, and Bartleby was billeted upon me for some mysterious purpose of an all-wise Providence, which it was not for a mere mortal like me to fathom.
Herman Melville
#65. The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.
Laurence Olivier
#66. Personally I do not resort to force- not even the force of law- to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion, and above all the influence of example- of fashion.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#67. The universe, they say, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty, and bloody-mindedness.
Terry Pratchett
#68. There are many Americans who regardless of the intelligence or the profound political persuasion of a figure will never vote for a black man. Not all of them are racists; some are skeptical, and some are suspicious.
Michael Eric Dyson
#69. Businessmen are not in business to lose customers, and schools do not exist to free their clients from the agencies of mass persuasion. School and media possess a productive monopoly upon the imagination of a child.
Jonathan Kozol
#70. In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.
Tony Campolo
#71. What poet's persuasion can reconcile the length of those days with the brevity of life?
Rainer Maria Rilke
#72. Leadership is essentially a task of persuasion - of winning people's minds and hearts.
Stephen Denning
#73. 2:2 The testimony of God is my only persuasion concerning you: Jesus Christ died your death on the cross! I can see you in no other light! (For I determined to know nothing in you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.)
Francois Du Toit
#74. Most people, especially activists, recognize their differences with others rather than what they have in common and that leads to frustration more than persuasion.
Dan Mathews
#76. Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.
Aristotle.
#77. True goal of totalitarian propaganda is not persuasion, but organization of the polity. ... What convinces masses are not facts, and not even invented facts, but only the consistency of the system of which they are presumably part.
Hannah Arendt
#78. 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
#79. Persuasion may play a part in a man's conversion; but only the part of bringing to its full and conscious climax a process which has been maturing in regions where no persuasion can penetrate. A faith is not acquired; it grows like a tree.
Arthur Koestler
#80. Maybe tomorrow when He looks down Every green field and every town All of his children every nation There'll be peace and good, brotherhood ... Crystal blue persuasion.
Tommy James
#81. The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.
Homer
#82. She was a filly that would take a lot of persuasion be-fore giving in to meet my needs, and oddly enough I didn't mind putting in the work.
Michelle Hughes
#83. By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art has become a boutique operation, manipulated by fashion, self-serving art scholars and the vagaries of the auction block.
Abe Ajay
#84. Real persuasion comes from putting more of you into everything you say. Words have an effect. Words loaded with emotion have a powerful effect.
Jim Rohn
#85. I won't pressure you, Ari, but I'm not opposed to subtle acts of persuasion.
Siobhan Davis
#87. 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.
Malcolm Gladwell
#88. [T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.
George Washington
#89. advertising is a subset of communication. Sales is a subset of advertising. Persuasion is a subset of sales. And psychology is a subset of persuasion.
Drew Eric Whitman
#90. 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
Niccolo Machiavelli
#91. When someone is not there all the time it gives us space to think about them. Your job in influence and persuasion is to get the other person to think about you or your product without you forcing yourself upon them or without you making them think about you.
Robert Greene
#92. Anything to do with persuasion is rhetoric, right down to the argumentum ad baculum, which means threatening somebody with a stick until they agree with you.
Mark Forsyth
#93. The first rule of persuasion ... " "Don't you mean manipulation?" "You
Iris Johansen
#94. Tactics are great, but tactics become commoditized." TF: If you understand principles, you can create tactics. If you are dependent on perishable tactics, you are always at a disadvantage. This is why Ramit studies behavioral psychology and the elements of persuasion that appear hardwired.
Timothy Ferriss
#95. Photography is a powerful medium of persuasion and propaganda. It has that ring of truth when all the time, in artful hands, it can make any statement the manipulator chooses.
Michael Langford
#97. A grain of real knowledge, of genuine controllable conviction, will outweigh a bushel of adroitness; and to produce persuasion there is one golden principle of rhetoric not put down in the books-to understand what you are talking about.
John Robert Seeley
#98. There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.
Shiv Khera
#99. First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.
Huston Smith
#100. 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
