Persuasive Quotes · Page 2

How difficult it is to sound persuasive at the top of one's voice!

— Aldous Huxley

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

— Janet Frame

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

— Homer

Children learn through gentle direction and persuasive teaching.

— Thomas S. Monson

The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I consider myself a persuasive person. With the ability to persuade comes a certain level of power.

— Ertharin Cousin

If you can't be persuasive to get people to believe your crazy idea, you can just go ahead and build it.

— Jim McKelvey

Identity liberalism, as I understand it, is expressive rather than persuasive.

— Steve Inskeep

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

— Kirsten Powers

Good leadership is pervasive, persuasive, and persistent. Bad leadership is poisoned with pedanticism, posturing, self-importance.

— Marcia Whicker

“You’re here for a reason. You’re here because you want to transform your speaking skills and become a powerfully persuasive”

— Akash Karia

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

— John F. Kennedy

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

— John C. Maxwell

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

Asil left Bran alone with his thoughts then, because if he stayed, Bran would argue with him. This way, Bran would have…

— Patricia Briggs

The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Whatever the source of the leader's ideas, he cannot inspire his people unless he expresses vivid goals which in some sense they…

— David McClelland

Truth is now simply a matter of etiquette: it has no authority, no sense of rightness, because it is no longer anchored…

— David F. Wells

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

— David Ogilvy

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 draft is a monstrous violation of individual liberty, and even a good motive cannot make it otherwise. In a free society…

— Sheldon Richman

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

Speaking with passion born of your own authentic experience and belief is always persuasive.

— Charlotte Beers

I would describe my mother as a steel magnolia. She was very intelligent, very persuasive.

— Linda Johnson Rice

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

— Demetri Martin

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

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

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

— Thornton Wilder

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

— Rashida Jones

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

— William H. Hastie

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

— Mark Twain

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

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

— David DiSalvo

“To be persuasive, We must be believable, To be believable, We must be credible, To be credible, We must be truthful.”

— Edward R. Murrow

Secrecy is for losers. . . . It is time to dismantle government secrecy, this most persuasive of Cold War-era regulations. It…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan