Adopted Quote by Abraham Lincoln

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a…

— Abraham Lincoln

The conduct of men depends upon the temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.

— Benjamin Disraeli

To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

— Ayn Rand

All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions are entertained,…

— Charles Brockden Brown

If what the philosophers say be true, that all men's actions proceed from one source; that as they assent from a persuasion that a…

— Epictetus

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A man should always have these two rules in readiness. First, to do only what the reason of your ruling and legislating faculties suggest…

— Marcus Aurelius

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the…

— Aristotle

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Most people don't have the power of persuasion.

— James Altucher

Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.

— Seneca the Younger

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion

— Jonathan Swift