Top 346 Persuaded Quotes & Sayings

Know when to give up a lost cause. Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be.

Brands must make use of the inclination of consumers to be persuaded by friends.

I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.

We're most likely to lose our rights when we allow ourselves to be persuaded to deprive others of theirs.

Well, you show me the science [that being gay is not a choice] and I'll be persuaded.

If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won't be persuaded by me, taking it that I am ionizing. And if I tell you that it is the greatest good for a human being to have discussions every day about virtue and the other things you hear me talking about, examining myself and others, and that the unexamined life is not livable for a human being, you will be even less persuaded.

It is the duty of the law-giver to deliver to the many the instructions of whose truth he has persuaded himself.

A people without a heritage are easily persuaded.

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

I come from a very loving, stable background where I've been persuaded to just be myself and anything is possible.

A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.

I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer.

I beg my reader to consider the "evidence" I provide for my case and perhaps feel persuaded as a result. Beyond that I make no claim.

Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works.

Take away a nation's heritage and they are more easily persuaded.

[We are] persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.

I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I’d rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded

I'm persuaded that if most people saw what I see on a regular basis, they would want change.

I passed my Lawn Tennis Association coaching exam, and I persuaded my local club to let me use a court after school and on Saturdays.

I am easily persuaded to continue to have fun.

Sometimes people will have a heart attack or some devastating personal loss, and after that, their political views change completely, and their behavior changes completely. It's not because somebody persuaded them to look at the graph on CO2 and temperature, and they finally saw the evidence and were persuaded. Something else changed that allowed them to see and to hear. What is that something else? How can we cultivate that in people without them having to go through a heart attack? The interpersonal things we do change the substructure of our systems. They are political.

There is a danger in being persuaded before one understands.

If people are persuaded of the need for education and the need to invest in education, they're also persuaded of the need not to waste that investment by having low-quality education but to have high-quality education.

Nigel Farage has persuaded too many people that we have lost control of our borders.

We have been basically persuaded that we should not talk about racism.

You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.

'Hard Knocks' seems to have done for the self-serious NFL what the witch did for Rapunzel: persuaded it, somehow, to let its hair down.

I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.

When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake.

You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.

I was persuaded to see 'The Muppets' by a friend, and I regretted it. A very boring hour and a half.

I am persuaded that the greater part of our complaints arise from want of exercise.

There's such a huge link with fashion, with front covers of magazines and selling products, but that's not what you go into the job for, and yet you're persuaded that's what you have to do to create the opportunities for yourself.

Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded. That all the Apostles would have done as they did.

Cesare persuaded King Louis to lend him an entire army to defeat me. I'm flattered.

Like most people who go to prison for an unfair thing, we become more persuaded in our own beliefs.

Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.

Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to.

I am persuaded that there is no affection of the human heart more exquisitely pure, than that which is felt by a grateful son towards a mother.

A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.

To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society. The moral pieties, that are voiced today by many well-meaning environmentalists, are as naive as the moral pieties of multinationals are manipulative. Capitalism can no more be ‘persuaded’ to limit growth than a human being can be ‘persuaded’ to stop breathing. Attempts to ‘green’ capitalism, to make it ‘ecological’, are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.

If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.

Providence has done, and I am persuaded is disposed to do, a great deal for us; but we are not to forget the fable of Jupiter and the countryman.

Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings.

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.

No hungry man who is also sober can be persuaded to use his last dollar for anything but food.

If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "You Only Live Once."

At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.

I shall never be persuaded that God hath shut up all light of learning within the lantern of Aristotle's brain.

Capitalism can no more be 'persuaded' to limit growth than a human being can be 'persuaded' to stop breathing. Attempts to 'green' capitalism, to make it 'ecological', are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.

I think the beauty looks I most regret are those I was persuaded into.

Institutions are increasingly persuaded that political maneuvering is more important than scientific justification in securing federal funds.

If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricked into it.

I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that He is indeed our Master.