Persuasion Quotes - Page 2

• The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Mind, States, Young

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1837). “Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait”, p.95

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• 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.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Believe, Majority, Aim

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• One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Suffering, Doe

  Jane Austen (2013). “Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.404, BookCaps Study Guides

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

  William Blake

  Doe, Firm

  'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'A Memorable Fancy' plates 12-13

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• Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.

  Jane Austen

  Agitation, Letters, Moments

  Jane Austen (2016). “Persuasion”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, this firm persuasion removes mountains; but many are not capable of firm persuasion of anything.

  William Blake

  Believe, Imagination, Age

  'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'A Memorable Fancy' plates 12-13

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• Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear.

  John Milton

  Heart, Winning, Firsts

  John Milton (1752). “Paradise Regain'D. A Poem, In Four Books. To which is added Samson Agonistes, And Poems upon Several Occasions: 3”, p.154

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• Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Oratory, Unbelievable

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• The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Freedom Of Speech, Brain, Mind

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• There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Gun, Winning

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.70, Penguin

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• My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Clever, Ideas

  Persuasion ch. 16 (1818)

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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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• I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

  Jane Austen

  Strength, Hate, Women

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Kings, World, Force

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• A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Men, Doe

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.335, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Baby you should bring your best friend, then you should persuade her to let me get some sex in. Don't get offended, baby, that's just a suggestion

  Drake

  Best Friend, Friends, Sexy

  Song: It's Been A Pleasure

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• The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.

  Benjamin Rush

  Bible, Reading, School

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• To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society. The moral pieties, that are voiced today by many well-meaning environmentalists, are as naive as the moral pieties of multinationals are manipulative. Capitalism can no more be ‘persuaded’ to limit growth than a human being can be ‘persuaded’ to stop breathing. Attempts to ‘green’ capitalism, to make it ‘ecological’, are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.

  Murray Bookchin

  Nature, Warrior, Breathing

  "Remaking Society: Pathways to a Green Future". Book by Murray Bookchin, 1990.

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• Persuasion is better than force.

  Aesop

  Life, Force

  Aesop, General Press (2016). “Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories”, p.22, GENERAL PRESS

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• I urge our people everywhere, with all of the persuasiveness of which I am capable, to live worthy to hold a temple recommend, to secure one and regard it as a precious asset, and to make a greater effort to go to the House of the Lord and partake of the spirit and the blessings to be had therein.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  God, Christian, Religious

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

  Roy H. Williams

  Target, Want, Firsts

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

  Jay Heinrichs

  People, Audience, Fulcrum

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

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Oratory, Power Of Persuasion, Objects

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• People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  People, Peculiar, Spirituality

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• He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.

  Lord Chesterfield

  People, Firsts

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