Persuade Quotes

344 Persuade quotes by 293 unique authors

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 won’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
The Father did not require the death of Christ to persuade Him to love us. Christ died because the Father loves us. — Sinclair B. Ferguson
If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
We do not suffer by accident. It does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to… — Elizabeth Bennett
Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I shall end up an old maid. — Elizabeth Bennett
If you persuade yourself that you can do a certain thing, provided this thing be possible, you will do it, however difficult it may be.… — Emile Coue
"Maybe I just don't want another rejection," he shrugs. "I've had enough of that in my so-called acting career." Oh, so this is what it's… — Alexandra Potter
The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince. — Josh Billings
I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means… — Galileo Galilei
It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the… — Eric Hoffer

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