Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Persuasion.
People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
Will Rogers
People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.
Johann von Goethe
Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced; the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.
That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life -- there, if one must speak out, the real man.
Marcus Aurelius
You must make the product interesting not just make the ad different. And that's what too many of the copywriters in America today don't yet understand.
Rooser Reeves
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Zig Ziglar
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.
Samuel Johnson
The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.
Joshua Renolds
I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.
Neil Gaiman
It is nobler to convert souls, than to conquer kingdoms.
Louis Debonnaire
As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.
William James
My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.' 'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.
Jane Austen
Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.
Samuel Goldwyn
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
Amos Bronson Alcott
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
James Thurber
He that winna be ruled by the rudder maun be ruled by the rock.
Scottish Proverb
These aren't the droids you're looking for.
Obi-Wan Kenobi
It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
Benjamin Franklin
