Top 330 Persuasion Quotes & Sayings

With plants, persuasion is better than force.

The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.

Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the influence of speech; for we do not, when influenced by pain or joy, or partiality or dislike, award our decisions in the same way; about which means of persuasion alone, I declare that the system-mongers of the present day busy themselves.

What is illiberal is not persuasion but imposition of one's views.

Advertising is the art of persuasion.

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

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.

[A] sick mind cannot be cured by the sheer force of persuasion.

[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk. When I yielded, I thought it was to duty; but no duty could be called in aid here. In marrying a man indifferent to me, all risk would have been incurred and all duty violated.

Elegant persuasion is when the other person thought it was their idea.

Ninety percent of selling is conviction, and 10 per cent is persuasion.

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

I'm not in love, but I'm open to persuasion.

I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience.

Leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.... Reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged.... Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them.

Influence is just persuasion in slow motion.

There is arguably something wrong with a method of persuasion that cannot pass the test of publicity.

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.

The talent of insinuation is more useful than that of persuasion, as everybody is open to insinuation, but scarce any to persuasion.

... human free will implies God's prior decision not to tamper with the metaphysical base of that free will. It also implies man's ability to reject the persuasion God uses to influence that free will while leaving its metaphysical base intact! Persuasion, not compulsion, is what even He must rely upon! And persuasion, by its very definition, must be resistible!

Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, this firm persuasion removes mountains; but many are not capable of firm persuasion of anything.

Facts and credibility only support persuasion.

At the end of reasons comes persuasion.

There are a lot of great technicians in advertising. And unfortunately they talk the best game. They know all the rules. They can tell you that people in an ad will get you greater readership. They can tell you that a sentence should be this short or that long. They can tell you that body copy should be broken up for easier reading. They can give you fact after fact after fact. They are the scientists of advertising. But there's one little rub. Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

Presentations are the most amazing persuasion tool available in organizations today

Persuasion is not a science but an art

Persuasion is better than force.

Because, Cat, it’s the feminine persuasion that’s always the deadliest.

Most people don't have the power of persuasion.

Violence is not the only means of persuasion.

From him [Death] alone of all the powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?

We're all subject to the daily pressures of consumer persuasion.

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

Gentle persuasion succeeds where force fails.

We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.

The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

Selling is a natural skill. It's developed as a child. You may know it as persuasion.

A lot of people think that persuasion is all about values and aligning values. I largely disagree. I think persuasion generally, and political persuasion more particularly, has much more to do with explaining in new ways and connecting dots in new ways than just invoking emotions and values.

Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.'

I am not in love / But I'm open to persuasion.

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time.

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)

Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.

Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.

A companion's words of persuasion are effective.

Clarity (always) trumps persuasion

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

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.

I do deeply deplore, of the sake of the cause, the prevalent notion, that the clergy must be had, either by persuasion or by bribery. They will not need persuasion or bribery, if their hearts are with us; if they are not, we are better without them. It is idle to suppose that the kingdom of heaven cannot come on earth, without their cooperation.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

Shigure: JUST LISTEN TO ME FOR A SECOND, KYO! Kyo: SHUT UP! I HATE THIS! DO YOU REALLY GET THAT MUCH ENJOYMENT FROM PLAYING WITH PEOPLES' LIVES?! Shigure: Well, yes, now that you mention it, I do--BUT THIS IS FOR YOUR OWN GOOD! Kyo: Man, your persuasion skills SUCK! Tohru: Um, welcome home. Dinner's- Kyo: NOT HUNGRY! Shigure: KYO! DON'T TAKE THIS OUT ON TOHRU! And come back to the entrance hall this instant and take those shoes off! Yuki: He's right, Shigure. You really do suck at persuasion.

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