Persuasive Quotes · Page 3

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

— Frederick Buechner

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

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

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

Everything in life is arbitrary yet must be over-determined in literature. Jean McGarry knows how to tell a persuasive tale illuminating these…

— Harold Bloom

We hear many persuasive voices demanding freedom from restrictions, particularly from moral restraints. However, we learn from the history of the earth…

— James E. Faust

The reasoning isn't crazy. It's technically correct. If you're being true to the idea that government must not take positions on religious…

— Jack Balkin

Eugene Peterson's language makes the Bible exciting and strong, sweet, sharp, persuasive, painful, personal, contemporary, kind, and dramatic—and available to every reader…

— Walter Wangerin

Recapitulation provided a convenient focus for the persuasive racism of white scientists; they looked to the activities of their own children for…

— Stephen Jay Gould

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

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

— Kirsten Powers

Perfection, in the form of a flawless stream of words delivered with cool composure, is never as persuasive as realness. An impassioned…

— Charlotte Beers

Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd…

— Michael Hastings

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

— Patricia Briggs

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

— David Ogilvy

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

— Andrew Pyper

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— Demetri Martin

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

— Saaif Alam

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

— Angela Rippon

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

— Edward R. Murrow

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

— Demond Wilson

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

— Jeff Flake

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

— Daniel J. Boorstin

"Which side are you on" asks a question. That's one of the most powerful, persuasive ways to make a case, to say…

— Frank Luntz

The more you know about your customers, the more you can provide to them information that is increasingly useful, relevant, and persuasive.

— Jay Baer

A linear projection into the future of any science or technology is like a form of propaganda &emdash; often persuasive, almost always…

— Pamela McCorduck

“I think you’re understating the persuasive power of our girl parts, but let’s put that aside for a minute. You don’t think…

— Skye Warren

To have a true investment, there must be a true margin of safety. And a true margin of safety is one that…

— Benjamin Graham

Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have…

— William Congreve

You must learn all things, both the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, and the opinions of mortals in which there is no…

— Parmenides

Our task is not one of producing persuasive propaganda; Christianity shows its greatness when it is hated by the world.

— Ignatius of Antioch