Persuasion Quote by Jane Austen Download Open image ““Perhaps, he would now agree that you should sometimes let people persude you not to do things.”” — Jane Austen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Persuasion
“He who would do great things should not attempt to do them alone.” — Native American Seneca Tribe Proverb Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, good intentions couldn't do a thing except make you feel less alone, and sometimes that was enough.” — Riley Redgate Copy Share Image
“Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“The most difficult person to say no to is yourself. If you can do that, then you are in control.” — Bernard Osei Annang Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you can’t make someone agree with you if he doesn't want to.” — Omaid Ahmadzai Copy Share Image
“Don’t let anyone or anything keep you from doing what’s best for you.” — Victoria Jenkins Copy Share Image
“For I had observed that men did not usually do things unless they liked doing them.” — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“I mean, if you think about doing things to people like that, if you think about it too much, it gets all up in… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment” — Jane Austen 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
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
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
The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image