Persuasive Quotes · Page 3

Those three little words, 'Rip Off Britain,' have become incredibly powerful and persuasive.

— Angela Rippon

“If you are always persuasive, you would be able to make new friends in society.”

— Saaif Alam

A drunk driver is very dangerous. So is a drunk backseat driver if he's persuasive.

— Demetri Martin

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

— Edward R. Murrow

You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

God is a very persuasive creator. If God is the catalyst, there's nothing you can do about it.

— Demond Wilson

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.

— Jeff Flake

It is a lot harder to write a good book or a good column in a persuasive way without making fun of…

— Kirsten Powers

The great enemy of the truth is not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest but the myth persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

— John F. Kennedy

Just telling the facts are no longer enough. You now have to be persuasive, charismatic, interesting, and funny. Just telling people things…

— Milo Yiannopoulos

All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.

— Joseph Conrad

Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy…

— William C. Bryant

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are…

— Clifford Geertz

I should like to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche somewhere in a train or a steamer, and to spend the whole night…

— Anton Chekhov

Persuasive communication involves enthusiasm, animation, audience participation, authenticity and spontaneity.

— John C. Maxwell

I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really…

— David Ogilvy

I met him while I was imprisoned," I say, and my voice sounds far away even to me. "I was just curious."…

— Veronica Roth

I'd read 'Paradise Lost' as an undergrad at university but remembered little about it. No, not true: I remembered few details, but…

— Andrew Pyper

Also, and this may sound naïve, but since my early days in journalism, I've felt that getting as close as possible to…

— Sheri Fink

To win in November, Republican candidates must show they are in touch with voter concerns about growth, jobs, paychecks, government spending and…

— Karl Rove

Odours have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions or will. The persuasive power of an odour cannot…

— Patrick Süskind

The Bible says all men are without excuse. Even those who are given no good reason to believe and many persuasive reasons…

— William Lane Craig

Marian Head is a true student of Tao. Her insightful and persuasive 'Wu-Wei' approaches for personal transformation reach our hearts with open…

— Chungliang Al Huang

The Christian truth is attractive and persuasive because it responds to humanity's deepest needs.

— Pope Francis

The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.

— David Ogilvy

I can be pretty persuasive if I believe in something strongly enough.

— Rashida Jones

The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.

— Thornton Wilder

It is not a persuasive argument that an evil should continue because it has existed in the past.

— William H. Hastie

With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.

— Theophile Gautier

There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

— Mark Twain

People will buy snake oil from anybody who seems to be selling it in a persuasive way.

— Frederick Buechner

Every artist has his or her struggle to work out in their work. The more powerful the struggle, the more persuasive the…

— Philip Schultz

So persuasive is the power of the institutions we have created that they shape not only our preferences but actually our sense…

— Ivan Illich

The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the…

— Mark Twain

Although I was once sharply critical of the argument to design, I have since come to see that, when correctly formatted, this…

— Antony Flew

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Speaking passionately from the very center of who you are is compelling, forceful, persuasive: that’s what leadership sounds like.

— Charlotte Beers

“The reason that persuasive messages are short, pithy, and digestible in seconds is that we process them so quickly that they become…

— David DiSalvo