Force Quote by Aesop Download Open image “Persuasion is often more effectual than force.” — Aesop ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Force Persuasion
Persuasion, indeed, is a kind of force. It consists in showing a person the consequences of his actions. It is, in a word, force… — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade . . . — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Real persuasion comes from putting more of you into everything you say. Words have an effect. Words loaded with emotion have a powerful effect. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The talent of insinuation is more useful than that of persuasion, as everybody is open to insinuation, but scarce any to persuasion. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the influence of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Persuasion isn't about the people you disagree with. It's about the fulcrum; the persuadable audience. — Jay Heinrichs Copy Share Image
“Lay not the blame on me, O sailor, but on the winds. By nature I am as calm and safe as the land itself,… — Aesop Copy Share Image
It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray. — Aesop Copy Share Image
Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get… — Aesop Copy Share Image
Every man carries two bags about him, one in front and one behind, and both are full of faults. The bag in front contains… — Aesop Copy Share Image
once upon a time all the rivers combined to protest against the action of the sea in making their waters salt. "When we come… — Aesop Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad… — Tom Segev Copy Share Image
The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
