Persuade Quotes

344 Persuade quotes by 293 unique authors

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all… — Charles Darwin
A Jesus had to be crucified because he was an alive man. He must have called in his childhood, "Jesus, don't be befooled by others."… — Rajneesh
For awareness you need not go to the Himalayas; you need not go anywhere. Your life gives you enough opportunities to be aware. Somebody insults… — Rajneesh
Remember from this very moment: always choose that which is good for you and good for others. Choose creativity. Become a blessing to existence, because… — Rajneesh
Now bring what we have into common stock, and communicate to everyone in need; we who hated and destroyed one another, and on account of… — Justin Martyr
A brain you can convince, a simpleton you have to persuade. — Curt Goetz
It's easier to scare someone than to persuade him. — Edwin Feulner
No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform… — Alan Bullock
Yes, would to God that I could persuade the rich and the mighty that they would permit the whole Bible to be painted on houses,… — Martin Luther
When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It… — Nhat Hanh
These stupid peasants, who, throughout the world, hold potentates on their thrones, make statesmen illustrious, provide generals with lasting victories, all with ignorance, indifference, or… — Stephen Crane
Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay — Milton Friedman
How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the… — Aneurin Bevan
Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life. The most effective men… — Brian Tracy
A wonder then it must needs be,-that there should be any Man found so stupid and forsaken of reason as to persuade himself, that this… — John Ray
All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very… — Friedrich Nietzsche
They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide,… — Adrienne Rich
Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life - there, if one must… — Marcus Aurelius
I would absolutely refuse any direct or indirect war service and would try to persuade my friends to do the same, regardless of the reasons… — Albert Einstein
I don't know how many times I can sit there and talk about my character or my life. It's interesting to talk about experiences in… — Wendie Malick
In his voice resonated the timbre of a man who thinks he has convinced himself of an idea, but masks his own doubt by laboring… — Katherine Howe
Americans were convinced in their own minds that they were very miserable, and those who think so are so. There is nothing so easy as… — Thomas Hutchinson
I believe in Amy Winehouse. I know she’s not with us anymore but I believe she was who she was and in that way she… — Lana Del Rey
You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity. — Hannibal

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