Persuasion Quotes
28 quotations about Persuasion
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
It is nobler to convert souls, than to conquer kingdoms.
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.
To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.
Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
The secret is to always let the other man have your way.
Persuasion is better than force.
That which proves too much, proves nothing!
When a heart is on fire, sparks always fly out of the mouth.
If you can't get people to listen to you any other way, tell them it's confidential.
The tongue can paint what the eye can't see.
More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.
Those that will not hear must be made to feel.
He that winna be ruled by the rudder maun be ruled by the rock.
Authors on Persuasion
Amos Bronson Alcott
St. Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Carlyle
Lord Chesterfield
Chinese Proverb
Marcus T. Cicero
Louis Debonnaire
Benjamin Franklin
French Proverb
German Proverb
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
William Hazlitt
Homer
Horace
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas B. Macaulay
John Morely
Claiborne Pell
Proverb
Dean Rusk