Awards Quote by Aristotle

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

Persuasion isn't about the people you disagree with. It's about the fulcrum; the persuadable audience.

— Jay Heinrichs

Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade . . .

— Edward Gibbon

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

— Aristotle

Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker;…

— Aristotle

Most people don't have the power of persuasion.

— James Altucher

When you're trying to persuade people, more often than not, they feel you're being pushy. When you focus on influencing them, they're much less…

— Mark Goulston

Aristotle writes that persuasion is based on three things: the ethos, or personal character of the speaker; the pathos, or getting the audience into…

— Randal Marlin

The talent of insinuation is more useful than that of persuasion, as everybody is open to insinuation, but scarce any to persuasion.

— Lord Chesterfield

When someone is not there all the time it gives us space to think about them. Your job in influence and persuasion is to…

— Robert Greene

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good…

— Aristotle

For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes nothing to…

— Aristotle