Quotes about Persuasion

May comments, "We're always trying to persuade ourselves of things." Are

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats—and one always secretes too much jelly.

If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.

Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.

Democracy requires us to recognize others' rights even when we fundamentally disagree with them. It requires a civility in which I respect a person's ultimate worth and seek to persuade but not to coerce. For this reason modern democracy grew out of Christian soil.

Democracy requires us to recognize others' rights even when we fundamentally disagree with them. It requires a civility in which I respect a person's ultimate worth and seek to persuade but not to coerce.

Democracy requires us to recognize others' rights even when we fundamentally disagree with them. It requires a civility in which I respect a person's ultimate worth and seek to persuade but not to coerce. For this reason modern democracy grew out of Christian soil. We must exercise the skill of ethical surgeons in deciding which moral principles apply to society at large and how best to apply them.

When we lead by persuasion rather than command, patience is essential. Leaders rightly cultivate the art of persuasion that allows maximum individual decision making and ownership of a plan. Often, a leader's plan of action must wait for collegial support—ever patient—until the team is ready.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

The man with whom you are so impressed will beguile with that tongue of his twenty who do not know him.2 Do

You can't move people to action unless you first move them with emotion.... The heart comes before the head.

Leadership is more disposition than position—influence others from wherever you are.