Top 598 Persuade Quotes & Sayings

One of the best ways to persuade others is by listening to them.

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

If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.

Laughter and tears may not persuade, but they cannot be refuted.

I have no permanent enemies - only people I have yet to persuade.

The president is entitled to try to persuade Congress and the American people to pursue whatever policies he thinks are needed. But he is not entitled to shut down the government when he fails to persuade us.

I know people who will gently persuade you to be forthcoming.

Most great leaders are also great communicators. Great leaders have learned how to persuade so their objectives can be reached. The most powerful device to persuade is story. Stating facts and figures is not memorable. Emotionally connecting your audience to your idea through story will move them.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade.

It's easier to scare someone than to persuade him.

Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.

It is an uphill fight to persuade workers that the minimum wage is not in their interest.

Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.

Provided someone can persuade me, I will invest in anything.

Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade.

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.

I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is 'Abortion', because it is a war against the child... A direct killing of the innocent child, 'Murder' by the mother herself... And if we can accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love... And we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

As a Shakespeare character, if you can persuade someone in a sentence or a speech, you've got it right.

We ought to be able to persuade on opposite sides of a question; as also we ought in the case of arguing by syllogism: not that we should practice both, for it is not right to persuade to what is bad; but in order that the bearing of the case may not escape us, and that when another makes an unfair use of these reasonings, we may be able to solve them.

Once I could persuade these guys that all I wanted to hear from them was what they did - Tell me what you do - once you can persuade someone that this is all you're after, you can't shut them up because we're all fascinated by what we do.

That's a really sad moment. When people in a democracy are afraid of having the conversation, because it might actually lead to a conclusion they don't like, as opposed to saying, let's have the conversation, and let's learn, and, you know, let's, let me try to persuade you, and if I'm not persuading you, then you try to persuade me. That's what we hope for.

How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with LOVE, and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

Some authors write nonsense in a clear style, and others sense in an obscure one; some can reason without being able to persuade, others can persuade without being able to reason; some dive so deep that they descend into darkness, and others soar so high that they give us no light; and some, in a vain attempt to be cutting and dry, give us only that which is cut and dried. We should labor, therefore, to treat with ease of things that are difficult; with familiarity, of things that are novel; and with perspicuity, of things that are profound.

A brain you can convince, a simpleton you have to persuade.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

Good argument is intended to persuade another.

The best way to persuade is with your ears.

An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.

You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time.

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.

The wonderful thing about God is he knows what we need to persuade us.

Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you.

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

The secret of all true persuasion is to induce the person to persuade himself.

You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.

Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence.

For thousands of years, humans have used the art of storytelling to motivate and persuade.

Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince.

The copywriter uses words as tools to persuade and motivate an audience. You persuade your readers that you have something valuable to offer; you motivate them to acquire it for themselves. This is the essence of effective copywriting.

My teaching influences who you are and who you become, I said, because insofar as I persuade you to change what you know, I can't help but persuade you to change who you are. A vast portion of who you are just is a matter of what you know.

At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot

Government can take your money at gunpoint; businesses have to persuade you.

The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it.

I don't persuade to suicide.

Don't persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.

Don't let the doom criers and the cynics persuade you that the best is past.

To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.

It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.

A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.

You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.

I can only tell you the kind of power I want, which is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do. Persuade assumes that the other person is going to make the decision. Especially as a writer and an activist, I want the power to put ideas and possibilities out there, but I understand that they will only work if they are freely chosen, so I don't want the power to dictate or to force the choice, ever.

We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.