Top 598 Persuade Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.
Being 16 is the worst time to be anybody, there is not enough tea in China to persuade me to be that young again. I wasn't very happy with myself.
Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I shall end up an old maid.
There is all of this protesting against corporate power, but in reality, corporations have to persuade you - they could have a ton of money, but actually only government can use force.
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
My dear brothers, never forget, when you hear the progress of enlightenment vaunted, that the devil's best trick is to persuade you that he doesn't exist!
I came into politics because I wished to change things. You can't do that by lying to people; you have to educate, and persuade, and carry them with you - and it's often a long haul.
I formed a new group called Alcoholics-Unanimous. If you don't feel like a drink, you ring another member and he comes over to persuade you.
A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.
Hopefully people will be inspired to cook. It's my mission to persuade people not to be afraid of cooking.
When you're collaborating with somebody, there has to be a spirit of cooperation. There are a lot of times when you just can't persuade someone to write a certain type of song, either musically or lyrically.
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
Beauty itself doth of itself persuade the eyes of men without an orator.
When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.
To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.
Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.
People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
Confidence is contagious, but so is failure. Even the Yankees will lose if you persuade them that they will.
Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.
I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren't the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.
We are trying to persuade all the Iraqi opposition to come breathe freedom in Iraq and use liberated Kurdistan as a base for our common struggle.
Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.
To bring one's self to believe in a truth that has just dawned upon one is the first step towards progress; to persuade others is the second.
Hitler understood the demagogues' essential principle to teach or persuade is far more difficult than to stir emotion.
But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficient and omnipotent God would have designedly created...that a cat should play with mice.
You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it.
It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life.
It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can.
Clothes can suggest, persuade, connote, insinuate, or indeed lie, and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of other matters.
If one really believes that the metaphysic one adopts has much to commend it, then one should obviously try to persuade others of its truth or acceptability!
It's in the hands of activists to expand the universal concept of human rights to include homosexuals. Once they persuade the people, the politicians will follow.
It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
What higher obligation does a President have than to explain his intentions to the people and persuade them that the direction he wishes to go is right?
Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part.
It is one thing to open job opportunities. It is another to train people to fill them, or to persuade American enterprise to seek Negro as well as white applicants.
I would quite like to do something on Ireland about the culture, James Joyce, Yeats, persuade Seamus Heaney to have a chat and do some cooking.
Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant.
It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.
Sisters, some will try to persuade you that because you are not ordained to the priesthood, you have been shortchanged. They are simply wrong, and they do not understand the gospel of Jesus Christ.
When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.
I have noticed that no sooner do people embark on a course of action which they do not find wholly satisfactory than they muster every argument to persuade others to imitate it.
It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.
Most artists don't get paid for what they do, and they are lucky if they can persuade a friend to let them show something at a kid's birthday party.
Leaders have two characteristics: first they are going somewhere, and second they are able to persuade other people to go with them.
Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.
Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - there, if one must speak out, the real man.
When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.
...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.
I grew up in Mexico, not the U.S., and the fact is that there just aren't any parts for Latin actresses. I have to persuade people that my accent won't be a problem, but an asset.
I try to persuade people to act in ways that are not only in their own interest, but in the interest of society at large.
Referring to the PAP as uncaring so as to persuade some of our fellow Singaporeans to consider casting their vote for the WP will be self-defeating for us.
Alcohol may also persuade us that we have found the truth about life, a comforting experience rarely available in the sober hour.
My dissenting opinions, like my briefs, are intended to persuade. And sometimes one must be forceful about saying how wrong the Court's decision is.
Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.
In the morning I had decided that henceforth I only cared for easy loves. It is so degrading to have to persuade people into liking one, or one's works.
For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.
If I could persuade myself that I could find Him in a Himalayan cave I would proceed there immediately.
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.
Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.
