Persuading Quotes

• What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?

  Gilbert Highet

  Support, Political, Promise

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• Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball.

  Henry L. Stimson

  Russia, Europe, Land

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• Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Color, White

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.618, Library of America

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• I was little impressed with this rough and ready way of persuading people to renew their contracts and decided that I was now quite free of any obligations.

  Pietro Mascagni

  People, Littles, Way

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• I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Stay Strong, Men, Long

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Kings, World, Persuasion

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• He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

  Joseph Conrad

  Wisdom, Intelligence, Sound

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.1113, e-artnow

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• If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Advice, Serious, Persuasion

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• Business today consists in persuading crowds.

  T. S. Eliot

  Business, Crowds, Today

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• So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

  Lucretius

  Latin, Deeds Done, Evil

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1937). “Lucretius, de rerum natura”

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• I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win - win situation.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Winning, Thinking, Sales Person

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• As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Opportunity, Men, Good Man

  "Notes for a Law Lecture," ca. 1 July 1850

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• Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Speak, Persuasion, Reason

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Neighbors And Friends, Neighbors Friends, Lawyer

  "Notes for a Law Lecture," ca. 1 July 1850

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• My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

  Winston Churchill

  Love, Life, Anniversary

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• Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Business, Opportunity, Men

  "Notes for a Law Lecture," ca. 1 July 1850

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• The three main elements of public relations are practically as old as society: informing people, persuading people, or integrating people with people. Of course, the means and methods of accomplishing these ends have changed as society has changed.

  Edward Bernays

  Mean, People, Three

  Edward L. Bernays (2013). “Public Relations”, p.3, University of Oklahoma Press

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• Freudian therapists do a lot of listening and very little persuading, and that was one of the reasons I eventually gave up being an analyst. You had to be too passive and not speak up, and you couldn't give homework to clients. While I was still an analyst, I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit psychoanalysis after practicing it for six years.

  Albert Ellis

  Years, Giving, Listening

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• Leadership isn't just legislation, that it's a matter of persuading people and giving them confidence, and bringing them together and setting a tone.

  Barack Obama

  People, Giving, Together

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• To please people is a great step towards persuading them.

  Lord Chesterfield

  People, Steps, Persuasion

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.71

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• Teamwork is not a matter of persuading yourself and your colleagues to set aside personal ambitions for the greater good. It's a matter of recognizing that your personal ambitions and the ambitions of the team are one and the same. That's the incentive.

  Greg Brown

  Teamwork, Ambition, Incentives

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• We do not influence the course of events by persuading people that we are right when we make what they regard as radical proposals. Rather, we exert influence by keeping options available when something has to be done at a time of crisis.

  Milton Friedman

  People, Events, Times Of Crisis

  Milton Friedman, Rose D. Friedman (1999). “Two Lucky People: Memoirs”, p.220, University of Chicago Press

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• Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.

  Steve Jobs

  People, Want, Management

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• Harvey was not content merely to gather knowledge; he digested and arranged it under the guidance of the faculties which compare and reason. ... Harvey appears to have possessed, in a remarkable degree, the power of persuading and conciliating those with whom he came in contact. In the whole course of his long life we hear nothing either of personal enemies or personal enmities ... one of the great men whom God, in virtue of his eternal laws, bids to appear on earth from time to time to enlighten, and to ennoble mankind.

  William Harvey

  Men, Law, Long

  "The Works of William Harvey, M.D". Book by Robert Willis, "The Life of Harvey", 1847.

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• I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to.

  Harry S. Truman

  People, Trying, President

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