Top 1200 Power Of Persuasion Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I am interested in power, too, but power for you, the people, not power for bureaucrats and politicians and officeholders and all the like.

Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion, a persuasion, an excuse, a refuge; never a check.

Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

There are many ways to store power. You can visit places of power, special locations on the earth that are charged with power.

The only form of ethical persuasion that exists is when the goals of the persuader are aligned with the goals of the persuadee.

Wealth and power don’t go together. Power cannot be brokered. To me, power is responsibility.

We forget the nature of true power. The power within is abundance. The power without is greed.

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.

In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.

I believe that there is a greater power in the world than the evil power of military force, of nuclear bombs -- there is the power of good, of morality, of humanitarianism.

What is 'power' anyway? Power is an ego trip. Power is a way to rise yourself up by lowering others, and I want nothing of it.

Ninety percent of selling is conviction and 10 percent is persuasion.

To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.

Wealth and power don't go together. Power cannot be brokered. To me, power is responsibility.

The issue of power is not bound to power per se, but often depends on the people themselves, to what extent they unconsciously encourage this power and its structures.

When leadership rises to genius it has the power of transforming, of transforming experience into power. And that is what experience is for, to be made into power. The great leader creates as well as directs power.

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.

The Lord of Light in his wisdom made us male and female, two parts of a greater whole. In our joining there is power. Power to make life. Power to make light. Power to cast shadows.

He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

Persuasion isn't about the people you disagree with. It's about the fulcrum; the persuadable audience.

And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power.

Your lips are my persuasion, your love will be my cure.

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

People in every country should be free to choose and live their faith based upon the persuasion of the mind, and the heart, and the soul. This tolerance is essential for religion to thrive.

In the late '60s, people were saying we need power to, not power over. Power to do, accomplish, create, not power over other people.

The Spirit never makes men the instruments of converting others until they feel that they cannot do it themselves; that their skill in argument, in persuasion, in management, avails nothing.

We should respect each other as rational beings by trying to achieve our goals through reason and persuasion rather than threats and coercion.

I think influence is one way to exercise power and that the challenge is whether it is power over or power with. That's the essential shift that I hope can happen in the world.

But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

Trump's words do have power. Power to inspire and influence. Also power to intimidate and incite fear.

The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know you're using it.

... Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.

It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it.

Some think that they will exercise power for the general good, but that is what all those with power have believed. Power is evil in itself, regardless of who exercises it.

Be suspicious of people who have, or crave, power. Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous.

One must avoid ambition in order to write. Otherwise something else is the goal: some kind of power beyond the power of language. And the power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

We'll have a public power authority, which will also have the ability to build power or finance power. And more importantly, we'll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us leverage we don't have today.

One in whom persuasion and belief Had ripened into faith, and faith become A passionate intuition.

Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.

Love is a trick played on us by the forces of evolution. Pleasure is the bait laid down by the same. There is only power. Power is of the individual mind but the mind's power is not enough. Power of the body decides everything in the end and only might is right.

There should be intensive research of all forms of clean energy - sun power, wind power, water power including wave power. In some places thermal energy is available. I stayed on a ranch which, with solar panels and two windmills, provided its own energy.

The women who walk into Planned Parenthood clinics come from every background, every political persuasion.

Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade . . .

wealth means power: the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade.

The power for happiness, for good, for everything we need of life is within each one of us. The power is there - unlimited power.

The simple, daily influences of prayer, persuasion, and promoting of godly values are the most powerful tools a mother can use to unleash the potential of her children.

The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact power has no sex.

The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.

The power of thought is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of heart is love. Reason, love and power of will are perfections of man.

We are not depending on a reed shaken by the wind, but on the Priniciple of Life Itself, for all that we have or ever shall need. It is not some Power, or a great Power, it is all power.

The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power - power in its most despotic exercise - absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms - and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses.

I think it's the idea that beauty could be power, and that with power comes immortality, and with power comes control, and all of these other things are blocking her heart.