Persuasion Quotes


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 Persuasion 344
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. James Thurber Persuasion 159
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. Benjamin Franklin Persuasion 154
The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders. Eric Hoffer Persuasion 141
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable. Marcus Tullius Cicero Persuasion 112
For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction. Janet Frame Persuasion 111
When a heart is on fire, sparks always fly out of the mouth. Proverbs Persuasion 105
Call the bald man, Boy; make the sage thy toy; greet the youth with solemn face; praise the fat man for his grace. Helen Rowland Persuasion 103
You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time. Abraham Lincoln Persuasion 102
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. Johann von Goethe Persuasion 99
If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself. Lord Chesterfield Persuasion 98
If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend. Abraham Lincoln Persuasion 96
The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing. Homer Persuasion 92
He that winna be ruled by the rudder maun be ruled by the rock. Scottish Proverbs Persuasion 90
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion. Thomas Babington Macaulay Persuasion 89
The secret is to always let the other man have your way. Claiborne Pell Persuasion 85
Those that will not hear must be made to feel. Proverbs Persuasion 85
Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason. Benjamin Franklin Persuasion 83
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone. Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower Persuasion 81
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response. Amos Bronson Alcott Persuasion 80
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 Persuasion 78
To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone. Johann von Goethe Persuasion 77
Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject. John H. Patterson Persuasion 76
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 Persuasion 75
People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found out by others. Blaise Pascal Persuasion 73
Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them? Horace Persuasion 64
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity. Zig Ziglar Persuasion 60
Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it. Johann von Goethe Persuasion 60
More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar. Proverbs Persuasion 59
That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often. Ralph Waldo Emerson Persuasion 52
That which proves too much, proves nothing! Proverbs Persuasion 47
Whenever he met a great man he groveled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can do. William Makepeace Thackeray Persuasion 47
He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves. Lord Chesterfield Persuasion 43
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 Persuasion 42
To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them. Thomas Aquinas Persuasion 36
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 Persuasion 27
It is nobler to convert souls, than to conquer kingdoms. Louis Debonnaire Persuasion 26

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