Persuasive Quotes

111 quotes by 102 authors

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands. — Daniel J. Boorstin
It is not a persuasive argument that an evil should continue because it has existed in the past. — William H. Hastie
There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was… — Angela Carter
I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty… — Benjamin F. Wade
Properly practiced creativity MUST result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and… — William Bernbach
Recapitulation provided a convenient focus for the persuasive racism of white scientists; they looked to the activities of their own children for comparison with normal… — Stephen Jay Gould
This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create fiction, but at… — Mario Vargas Llosa
You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Christian truth is attractive and persuasive because it responds to humanity's deepest needs. — Pope Francis
Whatever the source of the leader's ideas, he cannot inspire his people unless he expresses vivid goals which in some sense they want. Of course,… — David McClelland
Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good. — Laozi
It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind… — Philip Roth
Edward Conardâ€™s book represents the most cogent and persuasive analysis of the Financial Crisis to date. It is deeper and likely more accurate than what… — Andrei Shleifer
The more you know about your customers, the more you can provide to them information that is increasingly useful, relevant, and persuasive. — Jay Baer
We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of… — Henry David Thoreau
The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones. — Thornton Wilder
Persuasive communication involves enthusiasm, animation, audience participation, authenticity and spontaneity. — John C. Maxwell
Your mental diet largely determines your character and your personality and almost everything that happens to you in life. When you feed your mind with… — Brian Tracy
You must learn all things, both the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, and the opinions of mortals in which there is no true warranty. — Parmenides
As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we must move on… — John F. Kennedy

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