Top 113 Persuading Quotes & Sayings

I think people don't want to be persuaded. And people don't even like to do the persuading.

Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience.

I did more than anyone else in persuading the U.S. to get rid of Saddam.

I am good at persuading people. In convincing the other, I try to start from their point of view so it's easier for me to find a common denominator.

Personal purity isn’t really the issue. Not supporting animal abuse – and persuading others not to support it – is.

Gold is a deep-persuading orator.

A few rules include all that is necessary for the perfection of the definitions, the axioms, and the demonstrations, and consequently of the entire method of the geometrical proofs of the art of persuading.

Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry.

I believe that if you have faith in your own abilities then in the end others will have faith in them too, even if they need a little persuading.

I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.

It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?

Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward, and that is accomplished by appealing to the intelligence of the majority.

Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes.

Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous.

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

Leadership isn't just legislation, that it's a matter of persuading people and giving them confidence, and bringing them together and setting a tone.

In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity, with reward and punishment instrumental in persuading man to obey divine commandments.

When you know you haven't been connecting with, persuading, or getting through to someone, consciously pause before meeting them and say to yourself, 'During this conversation, I am committing to being present and to connecting.'

The issue of what my role in the - in persuading the Bush administration to go to war has been greatly exaggerated.

I was little impressed with this rough and ready way of persuading people to renew their contracts and decided that I was now quite free of any obligations.

[Louis Brandeis] at the age of 57 decided to become the head of the American Zionist movement was more influential than anyone else in the 20th century in persuading Woodrow Wilson to recognize a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

To please people is a great step towards persuading them.

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself.

I have male fans, but I'm persuading them to become female!

There are actually only ever two pastoral problems you will ever encounter. The first is this: persuading those who are under the dominion of sin that they are under the dominion of sin. That's the task of evangelism. And [second], persuading those who are no longer under the dominion of sin that they are no longer under the dominion of sin because they're Christ's.

Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don`t need, with money they don`t have, in order to impress others who don`t care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.

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

Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.

We do not influence the course of events by persuading people that we are right when we make what they regard as radical proposals. Rather, we exert influence by keeping options available when something has to be done at a time of crisis.

I can sell anything to anyone. That is actually my superpower. I am really good at negotiating and persuading.

Persuading people through technology is the next social revolution. Facebook demonstrates just how powerful it will be.

I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you.

Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning.

Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to ignore reality.

Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball.

...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.

The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in society.

The one and only method of teaching men the true religion was established by Divine Providence for the whole world, and for all times: that is, by persuading the understanding through reasons, and by gently attracting or exhorting the will.

I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.

As the lawyer, I found most of it was a matter of research, which I was great at - that's what I did to death - and then basically persuading people that you're right, and they're wrong... I found that the easiest of all the professions to impersonate.

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

Having a good idea is one thing, but persuading other people to buy it is quite another. Good inventors are polymaths: they think with their hands and their brains. They're experts in design, engineering and business.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to.

By leading on a strong emissions reduction target, the U.K. is persuading others on the need for member states to have the freedom and flexibility to develop their own energy mix to achieve these ambitious reductions.

How lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content a woman.

...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.

When I went into the publishing industry, many women talked about the difficulty they had in persuading their families to let them go to college. They educated the boys, and the girls had to struggle.

Sometimes when people are attached to a project, they need persuading to stay attached, and then, in retrospect, they're not the right person.

When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot of woolly thinking.

The state spends much time and effort persuading the public that it is not really what it is and that the consequences of its actions are positive rather than negative.

It is arguable that the success of business propaganda in persuading us, for so long, that we are free from propaganda is one of the most significant propaganda achievements of the twentieth century.

The only thing more difficult than persuading someone else to start having sex with you is persuading yourself to stop.

Persuading employees to let go of old values and beliefs and adopt new ones can be challenging.

When you think about it, a trial is not really about what the truth is, it's about which barrister is better at persuading those 12 people to believe their story.

Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.

The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.