Top 204 Persuasive Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on September 19, 2024.
Speaking passionately from the very center of who you are is compelling, forceful, persuasive: that’s what leadership sounds like.
There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.
With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.
I consider myself a persuasive person. With the ability to persuade comes a certain level of power.
We can be dramatic, even theatrical; we can be persuasive; but the message we are telling must be true.
I noticed when I was at Stanford, there was a class called the persuasive technology design class, and it was a whole lab at Stanford that teaches students how to apply persuasive psychology principles into technology to persuade people to use products in a certain way.
Learning how to be persuasive has been really crucial to my life both professionally and personally.
Nobody is more persuasive than a good listener
I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive, then I know I'm truly persuasive.
The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation for any outcome, you have zero knowledge.
You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.
How difficult it is to sound persuasive at the top of one's voice!
The most persuasive gospel tract is the exemplary life of a faithful Latter-day Saint.
The skill set of pastor and comedian are incredibly similar. You want to affect people. You're good at reading rooms. You're persuasive, and you're likable.
What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
It is not a persuasive argument that an evil should continue because it has existed in the past.
The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.
If you can't be persuasive to get people to believe your crazy idea, you can just go ahead and build it.
It would behoove you to have your thesis finely tuned and the logical arguments utilized in support of it tightly woven into a credible, and creatively persuasive tapestry.
Children learn through gentle direction and persuasive teaching.
Speaking with passion born of your own authentic experience and belief is always persuasive.
I'm probably more persuasive than the next person if I want to be, but do I want to be? In my head, I just don't go there.
I can be pretty persuasive if I believe in something strongly enough.
Beauty has a persuasive power all its own.
Kindness is more persuasive than force.
The truly persuasive must step out of themselves and see their own flaws first and admit they could be wrong. Then, when they correct for that, you can be truly persuasive.
Our task is not one of producing persuasive propaganda; Christianity shows its greatness when it is hated by the world.
Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.
Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.
Everything in life is arbitrary yet must be over-determined in literature. Jean McGarry knows how to tell a persuasive tale illuminating these truths.
It is never persuasive to argue that you are not the kind of person who does what you are actually doing.
I like watching films that have very impelling content, great persuasive language.
The great enemy of the truth is not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest but the myth persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
I haven’t even really tried to win you over, Roza. When I want to, I can be very persuasive.
Find the simple story in the product, and present it in an articulate and intelligent, persuasive way.
What I do see is the right from the beginning that [Donald] Trump had an interest and was very persuasive in terms of talking about the veterans and needing to make changes there.
Keep going until you get good counsel that is persuasive for you that you should go elsewhere.
The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.
Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
People will buy snake oil from anybody who seems to be selling it in a persuasive way.
Because I live and work in Washington, D.C., I have a ringside seat at the world capital of The Persuasive Arts, or, as I like to call it, The Opinions Racket.
There is no meaningful or persuasive constitutional distinction between semiautomatic handguns and semiautomatic rifles.
A linear projection into the future of any science or technology is like a form of propaganda &emdash; often persuasive, almost always wrong.
I am a very persuasive man.
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
I consider myself to be quite persuasive when I want.
Persuasive communication involves enthusiasm, animation, audience participation, authenticity and spontaneity.
If you can’t be persuasive to get people to believe your crazy idea, you can just go ahead and build it.
'The Chosen,' if you recall, was based on the Chaim Potok novel and featured Robbie Benson's persuasive performance as a Hasidic Jew.
Identity liberalism, as I understand it, is expressive rather than persuasive.
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.
The Christian truth is attractive and persuasive because it responds to humanity's deepest needs.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.
The goal is not to make something factually impeccable, but seamlessly persuasive.
You must learn all things, both the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, and the opinions of mortals in which there is no true warranty.
Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.
I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive, then I know I’m truly persuasive.