persuasion

1.

The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.

- Hoffer, Eric

2.

Like President Reagan, President Bush has not shied from calling evil by its name or declaring his intention to defeat its latest incarnation, terrorism, just as free men and women of all political persuasions, here and abroad, defeated fascism and communism before.

- Donald Rumsfeld

3.

[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weaponùlaughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecutionùthese can lift at a colossal humbugùpush it a littleùweaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

- Mark Twain

4.

There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

- Junius

5.

A companion's words of persuasion are effective.

- Homer

6.

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

- Horace

7.

To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.

- Aquinas, St. Thomas

8.

Those that will not hear must be made to feel.

- Proverb, German

9.

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

- Alcott, Amos Bronson

10.

If you can't get people to listen to you any other way, tell them it's confidential.

- Proverb

11.

Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life -- there, if one must speak out, the real man.

- Aurelius, Marcus

12.

The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

- Zig Ziglar

13.

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

- Aesop

14.

Persuasion is better than force.

- Proverb

15.

Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

- Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.)

17.

If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.

- Horace Bushnell

18.

The tongue can paint what the eye can't see.

- Proverb, Chinese

19.

The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.

- Renolds, Joshua

20.

It is nobler to convert souls, than to conquer kingdoms.

- Debonnaire, Louis