Action Quote by James Fitzjames Stephen

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

— Aesop

Persuasion is better than force.

— Anonymous

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

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

Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade . . .

— Edward Gibbon

Persuasion isn't about the people you disagree with. It's about the fulcrum; the persuadable audience.

— Jay Heinrichs

“Persuasion can go through obstacles that force cannot.”

— Yusuf A. Leinge

Aristotle writes that persuasion is based on three things: the ethos, or personal character of the speaker; the pathos, or getting the audience into…

— Randal Marlin

There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be…

— Aristotle

Most people don't have the power of persuasion.

— James Altucher

The first step in persuasion is to entice your target to imagine doing the thing you want them to do.

— Roy H. Williams

The secret of all true persuasion is to induce the person to persuade himself.

— Harry Allen Overstreet