Persuasive Quotes

111 Persuasive quotes by 101 unique authors

Secrecy is for losers. . . . It is time to dismantle government secrecy, this most persuasive of Cold War-era regulations. It is time to… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result… — Charles Rosen
The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive. — Clifford Geertz
I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive, then I know… — Giancarlo Esposito
For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive. — Jeff Flake
I can be pretty persuasive if I believe in something strongly enough. — Rashida Jones
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 would behoove you to have your thesis finely tuned and the logical arguments utilized in support of it tightly woven into a credible, and… — Alan Woods
Eugene Peterson's language makes the Bible exciting and strong, sweet, sharp, persuasive, painful, personal, contemporary, kind, and dramatic—and available to every reader of this age. — Walter Wangerin
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I know… — Ansel Adams
Marian Head is a true student of Tao. Her insightful and persuasive 'Wu-Wei' approaches for personal transformation reach our hearts with open invitation to join… — Chungliang Al Huang
All creative art is magic , is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of mankind , pinned… — Joseph Conrad
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. — John Kenneth Galbraith
' The Lucky One' is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' persuasive storytelling. Readers don't read his books because they're… — Roger Ebert
I always thought Woody Harrelson is quite a persuasive guy. He's the kind of guy who can call you up in the middle of the… — Jesse Eisenberg
Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help… — Herman Kahn
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. — John F. Kennedy
A drunk driver is very dangerous. So is a drunk backseat driver if he's persuasive. — Demetri Martin
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful. — Edward R. Murrow
The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be. — David Ogilvy
I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of… — David Ogilvy
Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can… — Ted Olson
Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists. — Dennis Prager
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric. — Friedrich Schiller

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