Persuade Quotes

344 Persuade quotes by 293 unique authors

You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time. — Riccardo Muti
The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is said that gifts persuade even the gods. — Euripides
But in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so, Having a thousand tongues t' allure him And but one to bid him… — Walter Raleigh
Tomorrow you may want to persuade somebody to do something. Before you speak, pause and as yourself, "How can I make this person want to… — Dale Carnegie
To be a housewife is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a… — Phyllis McGinley
You have to realize that your work is done by your body, and if your body is in very bad health, it's not going to… — Reynolds Price
The Conservative Party have got to ask themselves, 'How do we persuade people who at the moment are voting Labour and Liberal Democrat to vote… — Kenneth Clarke
People who trust me will not be swayed by what's been said about me, and for people who don't, no amount of good reports will… — Zhang Ziyi
A REAL man, the kind of man a woman wants to give her life to, is one who will respect her dignity, who will honor… — Leslie Ludy
Every man has a right to his own opinion. Every race has a right to its own action; therefore let no man persuade you against… — Marcus Garvey
I cannot persuade myself that without love to others, and without, as far as rests with me, peaceableness toward all, I can be called a… — Saint Basil
Is the world ruled by strict laws or not? This question I regard as metaphysical. The laws we find are always hypotheses; which means that… — Karl Popper
Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under cross-examination. — Catherine Crier
My ability to persuade my wife to marry me [was] quite my most brilliant achievement ... Of course, it would have been impossible for any… — Winston Churchill
Many ... begin to make converts from motives of charity, but continue to do so from motives of pride. ... Charity is contented with exhortation… — Charles Caleb Colton
The public, therefore, among a democratic people, has a singular power, which aristocratic nations cannot conceive; for it does not persuade others to its beliefs,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
E?Â loquence quipersuade par douceur, non par empire, en tyran, non en roi. Eloquence should persuade gently, not by force or like a tyrant or… — Blaise Pascal
Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade. — George Steiner
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always… — Joseph Conrad

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