Persuasion Quotes

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.

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

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

Hitler's strength as a leader is that he almost always works through the power of his persuasion; rarely does he command.

Ninety percent of selling is conviction and 10 percent is persuasion.

Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.

Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.

A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.

Leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

With plants, persuasion is better than force.

I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience.

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

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

Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares.

In war, mere appearances have had all the effect of realities; and that a person, under a firm persuasion that he can command resources, virtually has them; that very prospect inspiring him with hope and boldness in his exertions.

Your lips are my persuasion, your love will be my cure.

The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.

Influence is just persuasion in slow motion.

We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.

I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time.

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.

We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.

To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

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