Quotes about Persuasion
See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate the man who has convinced them.
- Epictetus
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.
- Abraham Lincoln
In order to win a man to your cause, you must first reach his heart, the great high road to his reason.
- Abraham Lincoln
Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement.
- Euripides
I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.
- Napoleon Hill
Money doesn't talk. It screams.
- Glenn Beck
My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.
- St. Augustine
I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.
- Virginia Woolf
I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true
- Lady Gaga