Persuasion Quotes

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided. Aristotle
Good Character Impossible Men Whatever Believe Think Others Good Men Exact More Divided Absolutely Generally True Spoken Make Him Readily Opinions Question Than Personal Achieved Where Us Persuasion Speaker Certainty Fully Credible Speech
In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech. Aristotle
Language Three First Must Proper Various Various Parts Points Study Parts Arrangement Making Means Producing Persuasion Second Third Speech
There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills. Shiv Khera
Good Leadership People Guide Bad About Leaders Persuasion Skills Who Actively Hence Presentation
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world. Thomas Carlyle
Faith World Kings Only Brute Brute Force Force Persuasion
Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces. Henry David Thoreau
Other Thor More Powerful Pieces Gentle Hammer His Than Breaks Persuasion Her
A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion. Alfred Nobel
Love Food Heart Digest More Forced Than Stomach To Love Persuasion
First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat. Huston Smith
Religion Soul Political First Differences Community Drawn First Of All Because Up Heat Gets Really Breeds Persuasion Turns Serve Violence
Whatever your religious persuasion, if you believe that that the universe is governed by benign forces, at some point you have to explain why there is so much suffering, misfortune and misery in the world. Julian Baggini
You Suffering World Whatever Believe Universe Benign Religious Some Point Misery Misfortune Forces Governed Explain Much Persuasion Your Why
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art. Aristotle
Art Other Defined Case Given Faculty Observing Any May Rhetoric Available Means Persuasion Function
I'm not in love, but I'm open to persuasion. Boy George
Love Open Persuasion
The women who walk into Planned Parenthood clinics come from every background, every political persuasion. Cecile Richards
Women Political Walk Every Background Parenthood Come Clinics Persuasion Planned Planned Parenthood Who
Wherever there was injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion. Coretta Scott King
War Best Injustice Women Gays Moral Disadvantaged Exert Up Discrimination Did Wherever Against Persuasion Show
I love all our Father's children of every color, creed, and political persuasion. Ezra Taft Benson
Love Political Father Every Our Color Children Persuasion Creed
I'm delighted to be joining City. It didn't take much persuasion from Mark Hughes; they are heading in the direction I want to go. There is great potential here. Gareth Barry
Great Mark City Direction Potential Delighted Joining Take Heading Go Hughes Want Much Persuasion Here
I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind. George W. Bush
Work You Change People Cause Mind Will Drop Believe Tell Hat Criticize Terrorists American Going Just American People Persuasion Successor Therapy
I used all diligence to arrive at London and therefore I now gave my crew a certificate under my hand, of my free and willing return, without persuasion or force by any one or more of them. Henry Hudson
Free Crew Gave Diligence Willing London More Force Return Without Arrive Hand Any Them Persuasion Used Certificate Therefore Now
Businesses have to make gestures that go beyond words. Persuasion no longer works. John Gerzema
Words Longer Beyond Make Go Gestures Persuasion Businesses Works
When you collect bad loans... you sure learn a lot about making good ones. You also learn a lot about the power of persuasion, persistence and desperation. John Stumpf
Good You Persistence Desperation Power Collect Bad Good Ones About Also Learn Sure Making Lot Persuasion Loans
Businessmen are not in business to lose customers, and schools do not exist to free their clients from the agencies of mass persuasion. School and media possess a productive monopoly upon the imagination of a child. Jonathan Kozol
Business School Free Lose Imagination Monopoly Possess Mass Schools Clients Exist Child Customers Agencies Persuasion Productive Businessmen Media
One can only hope that America, and other countries, will not need more natural persuasion before taking to heart the lessons of Hurricane Harvey. Joseph Stiglitz
Hope Heart Natural Will Before Other Other Countries Harvey Hurricane More Only Taking Countries America Persuasion Lessons Need
'Powers of Persuasion: The Story of British Advertising' by Winston Fletcher - the impression you get from reading this book, which covers post-war advertising until the present, is of a chaotic, self-serving, occasionally brilliant but ultimately shallow business. Justin Cartwright
You Business Book Brilliant Reading Chaotic Post-War Shallow Winston Until Powers Advertising Occasionally Self-Serving Covers Ultimately Impression Get Story Which Persuasion Present British
And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive. They are, most of them are hate-filled, obscenity-clogged rants of anger and hatred. Karl Rove
Anger Hatred Think Conservatives Channels Frankly About Something Most Left Them Persuasion
I like the law. I like the part that's about reasoning, about persuasion, about telling stories, about trying to build structures that fall within rules. Ken Liu
Law Build Fall Rules Telling About Structures Part Like Within Trying Stories Persuasion Reasoning
I believe, whether it is the United States or Europe, they will all end up as multicultural societies. So India's this great experiment of a billion people of such great diverse persuasion, working together, seeking their salvation in the framework of a democracy. I believe it will have some lessons for all the multicultural societies. Manmohan Singh
Great Democracy Working Together Together People Will Experiment Believe Framework States India Some Seeking Diverse End Up Salvation Whether Working Persuasion Billion Europe Multicultural Lessons United United States Societies
The most influential people strive for genuine buy-in and commitment - they don't rely on compliance techniques that only secure short-term persuasion. Mark Goulston
Commitment People Strive Compliance Secure Only Rely Most Genuine Influential Short-Term Persuasion Techniques
The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society. Mark Skousen
Society Sign Triumph Civilized Civilized Society Over Force Persuasion
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