Persuade Quotes

344 quotes by 295 authors

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. — Winston Churchill
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. — John Ciardi
If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can… — John Cleese
It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who… — Thomas Aquinas
The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade… — Germaine Greer
Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured smile can work… — William Hazlitt
We are trying not so much to make God listen to us as to make ourselves listen to him; we are trying not to persuade… — William Barclay
Prayer is not a means for us to persuade a reluctant God to do something which is against His better judgment. Prayer, rather is coming… — John F Walvoord
What made me love thee? let that persuade thee, there's something extraordinary in thee — William Shakespeare
Tempus never left a problem for another to solve. Tempus never let the pain or difficulty of an undertaking persuade him not to pursue a… — Janet Morris
In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her of her hope of being… — Adolf Hitler
It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing… — Andre Gide
I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win - win situation. — Robert Foster Bennett
Beauty itself doth of itself persuade the eyes of men without an orator. — William Shakespeare
Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it… — Charles Caleb Colton
There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows… — Edward Hoagland
It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them. — Samuel Johnson
A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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