Persuasion Quote by Edward Gibbon Download Open image “Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade . . .” — Edward Gibbon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Persuasion Resources
Persuasion isn't about the people you disagree with. It's about the fulcrum; the persuadable audience. — Jay Heinrichs Copy Share Image
...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The talent of insinuation is more useful than that of persuasion, as everybody is open to insinuation, but scarce any to persuasion. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the influence of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When you're trying to persuade people, more often than not, they feel you're being pushy. When you focus on influencing them, they're much less… — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
Real persuasion comes from putting more of you into everything you say. Words have an effect. Words loaded with emotion have a powerful effect. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit… To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. We are advertis'd by our loving friends. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When someone is not there all the time it gives us space to think about them. Your job in influence and persuasion is to… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The sectaries of a persecuted religion, depressed by fear, animated with resentment, and perhaps heated by enthusiasm, are seldom in a proper temper of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of Mahomet; each… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Constantinople was the principal seat and fortress of Arianism; and, in a long interval of forty years, the faith of the princes and prelates… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of the West:… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
[Every] hour of delay abates the fame and force of the invader, and multiplies the resources of defensive war. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The science of the church is neglected for the study of geometry, and they lose sight of Heaven while they are employed in measuring… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
People forget that there is a big difference between coercion and persuasion. The idea that evangelism is coercive is nonsense. — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
“I am a firm believer in the ‘Power of Persuasion.’ Insomuch as, whatever you believe are your limitations, will become your limitation.” — Tonny K. Brown Copy Share Image
Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“My third maxim was to endeavour always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of the world,… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
[T]here are, at bottom, basically two ways to order social affairs, Coercively, through the mechanisms of the state - what we can call political… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
“Therapy requires a collaborative working relationship in which both partners act on the basis of their implicit confidence in the value and efficacy of… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances. — Richard Mentor Johnson Copy Share Image
Whether it's a blessing or a curse, I have always played someone like 10 years younger. When I was 23 or 24, I was… — Elisabeth Harnois Copy Share Image
Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education, seek to… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
If Bill O'Reilly is calling you a far-left critic, in my book, no matter what your political persuasion is, that's probably - that probably… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
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