Persuade Quotes

344 Persuade quotes by 293 unique authors

Campaigns fail if they waste resources courting voters who are unpersuadable or already persuaded. Their most urgent task is to find and persuade the few… — James Surowiecki
The wonderful thing about God is he knows what we need to persuade us. — Charles R. Swindoll
I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we… — Helen Thomas
Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair. — Ieyasu Tokugawa
I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally. — Calvin Trillin
Some say the economy means that you have to persuade people to invest in clothes - to buy less things but more expensive things. I… — Donatella Versace
I would love to persuade Christopher Bailey to get even just a section of Burberry that's, like, organic or free trade. I love him, he's… — Emma Watson
The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it… — Simone Weil
History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always… — Bill Watterson
We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own — Joseph Joubert
But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law are notorious for… — Daniel Handler
We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves — Confucius
But in a country where you hang your dead up on walls and pride whether or not a man bears a javelin more than his… — Shannon Hale
Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise. — Philip Roth
But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this. To see what could be, and to believe that… — Orson Scott Card
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information. — Kurt Vonnegut
Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's… — W. Somerset Maugham
At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince… — Miguel de Unamuno

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