Top 1200 Power Of Persuasion Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

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

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

Clean energy is hippy power. But its also cowboy power, it's rancher power, it's Appalachian power.

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

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

Presentations are the most amazing persuasion tool available in organizations today

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

I love all our Father's children of every color, creed, and political persuasion.

Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.

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

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

For me, bullfighting was this very spiritual engagement with power, with power and death. You're pitting yourself against a force that's stronger than you and then you're winning or losing. It's power, a power play.

Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.

Businesses have to make gestures that go beyond words. Persuasion no longer works.

Let no one ever shy away from the claim that Jews have power, that Jews have influence. We have learned the terrible lesson of history; that unless we have influence and power, disproportionate to our small numbers - immoral results will occur. We need power. And we must continue to use our power. Power which we earned, power which no one gave us on a silver platter, power which we worked hard for - use that power in the interests of justice.

The power of the heart is to be connected with who you are at the deepest level. The power of the heart is the power of life itself, the power of the very intelligence that pervades and underlies the entire universe. It is a power that lies at the very heart of the universe. So to live in connectedness with that, then you are in touch with the power of the heart.

My powers of persuasion are only as strong as the bullshit I have to back it up. - Charley Davidson

The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.

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

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

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

The effect of speech upon the condition of the soul is comparable to the power of drugs over the nature of bodies. For just as different drugs dispel different secretions from the body, and some bring an end to disease and others to life, so also in the case of speeches, some distress, others delight, some cause fear, others make the hearers bold, and some drug and bewitch the soul with a kind of evil persuasion.

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

With plants, persuasion is better than force.

Gentle persuasion succeeds where force fails.

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

The inward persuasion that we are free to do, or not to do a thing, is but a mere illusion. If we trace the true principle of our actions, we shall find, that they are always necessary consequences of our volitions and desires, which are never in our power. You think yourself free, because you do what you will; but are you free to will, or not to will; to desire, or not to desire? Are not your volitions and desires necessarily excited by objects or qualities totally independent of you?

We have power... Our power isn’t in a political system, or a religious system, or in an economic system, or in a military system; these are authoritarian systems... they have power... but it’s not reality. The power of our intelligence, individually or collectively IS the power; this is the power that any industrial ruling class truly fears: clear coherent human beings.

People forget that there is a big difference between coercion and persuasion. The idea that evangelism is coercive is nonsense.

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

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

Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose... one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites --- polar opposites --- so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love... What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.

Science promised man power. But, as so often happens when people are seduced by promises of power, the price is servitude and impotence. Power is nothing if it is not the power to choose.

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

People are always selling the idea that they have a magic bullet of persuasion. You won't get poor by shorting such promises.

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

True power is not in trying to gain power; true power is in becoming power. But how to become power? It requires an attempt to make a definite change in oneself, and that change is a kind of struggle with one's false self.

Persuasion occurs when trust and confidence meet belief, risk tolerance, and safety.

I can't do it. I've been here before and it's not a room with a view. The only power I have is the negative power of withdrawal. If I don't withdraw I have no power at all. A relationship where one person has no power or negative power, isn't a relationship, it's the bond between master and slave.

Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances to prevent abuse of power. However, where is the check on the power of the judiciary? If we fail to check the power of the judiciary, I predict that we will eventually live under judicial tyranny.

The first step in persuasion is to entice your target to imagine doing the thing you want them to do.

Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion. They are quite in accord with the procedures of brainwashing.

Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

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

What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On condition that the person express the will of the whole people. That is, power is power. That is, power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

It seems to me that whereas power usually means power-over, the power of some person or group over some other person or group, it is possible to develop the conception of power-with, a jointly developed power, a co-active, not a coercive power.

Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.

Our work has only begun. In our time we have an historic opportunity to shape a global balance of power that favors freedom and that will therefore deepen and extend the peace. And I use the word power broadly, because even more important than military and indeed economic power is the power of ideas, the power of compassion, and the power of hope.

You can't show up at a church every 4 October and say, 'Vote for me,' and call that persuasion.

Society was built on male power, and women's power was... ignored is the best word to describe it I suppose, we have been running society on one power, half a power really. And that's so terrible. The world needs women's power too.

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

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

That's what Judith Herman is saying, and she's absolutely right. Power then breeds an intensification of all because the power can never be absolute power - to some extent it's stymied - but the isolation while in power becomes even more dangerous. Think of it as a vicious circle. The power intensifies these tendencies and the tendencies become more dangerous because of the power.

Facts and credibility only support persuasion.

Leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

We must know the power of the Blood if we are to know the power of God. Our knowing experimentally the power of the Word, the power of the Holy Spirit, and the power of prayer is dependent upon our knowing the power of the Blood of Christ.

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

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