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241 Persuasion quotes by 190 unique authors

God's chief way of acting is by persuasion and patience and long-suffering, not by coercion and stark confrontation. He acts by gentle solicitation and by… — Howard W. Hunter
I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is… — John Brown
The world has progressed to the point where it's most powerful force is public opinion. And I believe that in this world it is not… — William Bernbach
I want to be honest about the world that we live in, and sometimes my political persuasions come through in my work. Fashion can be… — Alexander McQueen
An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic… — Alan Greenspan
Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make… — Herman Kahn
Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as Persuasion but with a modern setting, of course.… — Stella Gibbons
Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning. — Kenneth Burke
Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so? — William Blake
I am not in love / But I'm open to persuasion. — Joan Armatrading
I used all diligence to arrive at London and therefore I now gave my crew a certificate under my hand, of my free and willing… — Henry Hudson
All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions are entertained, for… — Charles Brockden Brown
A person under the firm persuasion that he can command resources virtually has them. — Livy
Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the… — William Laud
Influence is just persuasion in slow motion. — Robert McKee
Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion is also peace:… — David Bentley Hart
The spiritual power in the gospel is denied when we augment or adjusting gospel into no gospel at all. When we doubt the message alone… — Matt Chandler
You have your season, and you have but your season; neither can you lie down in peace, until you have some persuasion that your work… — John Owen
There are three ways of trying to win the young. There is persuasion, there is compulsion, and there is attraction. You can preach at them:… — Kurt Hahn
And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive. They are, most… — Karl Rove
If the Humanists wish to be champions of reason, they should consider the following: just as they would not admit mystics into their camp, since… — Ayn Rand
Elegant persuasion is when the other person thought it was their idea. — Marshall Sylver
Their task [creative artists], therefore, is to communicate directly from one inward world to another, in such a way that an actual shock of experience… — Joseph Campbell
Leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills. — Shiv Khera
Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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