Persuade Quotes

344 quotes by 293 authors

The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius. — Billy Wilder
The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise... — Mark Twain
Don't let the doom criers and the cynics persuade you that the best is past. — Ronald Reagan
Prayer is not an argument with God to persuade him to move things our way, but an exercise by which we are enabled by his… — Leonard Ravenhill
A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But… — J C Ryle
It's Not My Job To Try To Persuade People To Love Me, It's Only To Try To Make Them Love The Music — Chris Brown
People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion; [the leader] must both persuade them and move them. — Richard M. Nixon
When Laura Poitras asked me if she could film our encounters, I was extremely reluctant. I'm grateful that I allowed her to persuade me. The… — Edward Snowden
You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care, you've won. I absolutely promise you, in every serious… — Felix Dennis
For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had… — Wim Wenders
Bjartur declared that he had never denied that there was much that was strange in nature. "I consider that there's nothing wrong in believing in… — HalldÃ³r Laxness
To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce. — William Safire
Even if you persuade me, you wonâ€™t persuade me. — Aristophanes
Byrnes... was concerned about Russia's postwar behavior. Russian troops had moved into Hungary and Rumania, and Byrnes thought it would be very difficult to persuade… — Leo Szilard
You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his — Kenneth Burke
The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it. — Brennan Manning
Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler structure, he did… — Michael Behe
I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade… — Alan Cranston
To persuade thinking persons in Eastern Europe that Central American Marxists - the Sandinistas, the guerillas in El Salvador - are in absurd and tragic… — Michael Novak

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