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Gentle persuasion succeeds where force fails.

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Aesop
Greek - Author
620 BC - 564 BC

I'm the type of guy who fails and fails and fails, and then, as if failure has become sick of him, succeeds.

Bruce Jenner

Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion is also peace: that the desire awakened by the shape of Christ and his church is one truly reborn as agape, rather than merely the way in which a lesser force succumbs to a greater, as an episode in the endless epic of power. (3)

David Bentley Hart

If what the philosophers say be true, that all men's actions proceed from one source; that as they assent from a persuasion that a thing is so, and dissent from a persuasion that it is not, and suspend their judgment from a persuasion that it is uncertain, so likewise they seek a thing from a persuasion that it is for their advantage.

Epictetus

Prayer succeeds when all else fails

Edward McKendree Bounds

In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.

Albert Camus

Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.

Thomas Merton

Persuasion, indeed, is a kind of force. It consists in showing a person the consequences of his actions. It is, in a word, force applied through the mind.

James Fitzjames Stephen

When Art struggles, it succeeds; when revelling in its own successes, it as singularly fails.

Owen Jones

The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.

Voltaire

Ultimately every trick succeeds or fails with an audience because of its plot.

Jim Steinmeyer

Given that some social processes must convey inherent constraints, the choice is among various mixtures of persuasion, force, and cultural inducement. The less of one, the more of the others. The degree of freedom that is possible is therefore tied to the extent to which people respond to persuasion or inducement.

Thomas Sowell

Personally I do not resort to force - not even the force of law - to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion, and above all the influence of example - of fashion.

Rutherford B. Hayes

People respond to a guy who is trapped and succeeds on some level and fails on another.

Kiefer Sutherland

Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

George Bernard Shaw

The song succeeds or fails just based on whether you argue your point successfully.

Iron & Wine

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