Motivational Quotes

Persuasion

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.

- Rusk, Dean

Best Quotes about Persuasion

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

Call the bald man, Boy; make the sage thy toy; greet the youth with solemn face; praise the fat man for his grace.

Rowland, Helen

The secret is to always let the other man have your way.

Pell, Claiborne

Those that will not hear must be made to feel.

Proverb, German

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.

Franklin, Benjamin

Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his opinion in the course of a year no matter how absurd that opinion might be. We see every day in politics, in business, in social life, large masses of people brought to embrace the most revolutionary ideas, sometimes within a few days. It is all a question of getting hold of them in the right way and working on their weak points.

Crowley, Aleister

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

I don't know the rules of grammar. If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language.

Ogilvy, David

10.

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

Debonnaire, Louis

11.

Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.

Patterson, John H.

12.

That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.

Junius

14.

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

Hazlitt, William

15.

He that winna be ruled by the rudder maun be ruled by the rock.

Proverb, Scottish

16.

Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

18.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

19.

The truth isn't the truth until people believe you, and they can't believe you if they don't know what your saying, and they can't know what you've saying if they don't listen to you, and they won't listen to you if you're not interesting, and you won't be interesting until you say things imaginatively, originally, freshly.

Bernbach, William

20.

You must make the product interesting not just make the ad different. And that's what too many of the copywriters in America today don't yet understand.

Reeves, Rooser

21.

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

22.

People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced; the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

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

Proverb

25.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

Carlyle, Thomas

26.

The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.

Homer

27.

When a heart is on fire, sparks always fly out of the mouth.

Proverb

28.

Persuasion is better than force.

Proverb

29.

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

Hoffer, Eric

30.

More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.

Proverb, French

31.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found out by others.

Pascal, Blaise

32.

That which proves too much, proves nothing!

Proverb

33.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.

Rusk, Dean

35.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

36.

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

Junius

37.

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

Horace

38.

To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

40.

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

41.

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

Frame, Janet

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You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

Lincoln, Abraham