Persuasion Quotes

“No conflict no story”

— Antonio Nuñez Lopez

Persuasion is better than force.

— Anonymous

“Words have power.”

— Mira Grant

Clarity (always) trumps persuasion

— Flint McGlaughlin

Advertising is the art of persuasion.

— William Bernbach

One of the best ways to persuade others is by listening to them.

— Dean Rusk

From him [Death] alone of all the powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

— Aeschylus

Influence is just persuasion in slow motion.

— Robert McKee

In politics, if you're explaining, you're loosing.

— Rick Perlstein

Most people don't have the power of persuasion.

— James Altucher

We're all subject to the daily pressures of consumer persuasion.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

You can't fool all of the people all of the time. But it isn't necessary.

— Will Rogers

At the end of reasons comes persuasion.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.

— Jane Austen

The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.

— Laurence Olivier

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

— Honore de Balzac

Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.

— Joseph Conrad

In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through…

— Tony Campolo

We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.

— Oscar Wilde

Baby you should bring your best friend, then you should persuade her to let me get some sex in. Don't get offended,…

— Drake

Persuasion, indeed, is a kind of force. It consists in showing a person the consequences of his actions. It is, in a…

— James Fitzjames Stephen

Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as Persuasion but with a modern…

— Stella Gibbons

“Then what’s this?” She raised her glass of expensive wine, used it to indicate their plush surroundings. His gaze followed her indication…

— Monique DeVere

The attitude of Communists towards any person who has made mistakes in his work should be one of persuasion in order to…

— Mao Zedong

I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some…

— John Brown

“PERSUASION TIP 9 Display confidence (either real or faked) to improve your persuasiveness. You have to believe yourself, or at least appear…

— Scott Adams

In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The only roads of enquiry there are to think of: one, that it is and that it is not possible for it…

— Parmenides

“I never saw quite so wretched an example of what a sea-faring life can do: but to a degree, I know it…

— Jane Austen

“When the evening was over, Anne could not but be amused at the idea of her coming to Lyme, to preach patience…

— Jane Austen

“It is the bane, and pleasure when creating Romance fiction, to know immersion and fulfillment for the reader are based on clarity.…

— Glenn Hefley

According to the teaching of our Lord, what is wrong with the world is precisely that it does not believe in God.…

— John Baillie

Feminists who want to censor what they regard as harmful pornography have essentially the same motivation as other would-be censors: They want…

— Susan Jacoby

There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is…

— Aristotle

Sometimes it appears that we're reaching a period when our senses and our minds will no longer respond to moderate stimulation. We…

— Spiro T. Agnew

“For, besides what has been said, it should be borne in mind that the temper of the multitude is fickle, and that…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Crying is never an effective means of negotiation.

— Cailleach Bheur

The heart is not so easily changed, but the head can be persuaded.

— Anonymous

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

— Shiv Khera