When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period. — Bill James Copy Share Image
The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument. — William Matthews Copy Share Image
... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
“Too much ambition can be the death of a man. ... Or of many, if he can persuade them to follow.” — Lynette Hill Copy Share Image
That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out. — Adam Hughes Copy Share Image
“And if I am asked today to advise a young writer who has not yet made up his mind what way to… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
When you're trying to persuade people, more often than not, they feel you're being pushy. When you focus on influencing them, they're… — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. We are advertis'd by our loving friends. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When the initial effort of political and business leaders to influence public opinion on an issue is to threaten rather than to… — Preston Manning Copy Share Image
All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do--remember that--and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care, you've won. I absolutely promise you,… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
“Clothes can suggest, persuade, connote, insinuate, or indeed lie, and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of… — Anne Hollander Copy Share Image
If we can't persuade nations with comparable values of the merits of our cause, we'd better reexamine our reasoning. -Robert McNamara — Call Of Duty Copy Share Image
“if you can get the other side to drop their unbelief, you can slowly work them to your point of view on… — Chris Voss Copy Share Image
“[...]if you are hoping to damage opponents' mental health, go ahead and tell them how inferior or dim-witted or nasty they are.… — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
“We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I can only tell you the kind of power I want, which is the power to persuade. But I do not want… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men...… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Cheney was among the best secretaries of defence the country has ever had. He was a very effective White House chief of… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“When your turn comes to jump into the Nothing, you too will be a nameless servant of power, with no will of… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
Leadership is a word and a concept that has been more argued than almost any other I know. I am not one… — Dwight David Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Nothing frustrates me more than someone who reads something of mine or anyone else's and says, angrily, 'I don't buy it.' Why… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The only way to resonate at a level that persuades is to know who you are addressing. If it's true that the… — Nancy Duarte Copy Share Image
“Convince—Then Persuade Perhaps the most frustrating experience a salesperson has is to gain agreement from the customer that yes, the product is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“[...]if you are hoping to damage opponents' mental health, go ahead and tell them how inferior or dim-witted or nasty they are. But even if you are certifiably right on every point, you should not think for a minute that you will ever be able to persuade them. Name-calling will make you an enemy…” quote by Steven D. Levitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4e9/steven-d-levitt-5284_first-place_if-you-are-hoping-to-damage-opponents-me_193482.jpg)
