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Persuasion Quotes
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He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves. (Quote by - Chesterfield)
The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason. (Quote by - Franklin)
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. (Quote by - Conrad)
If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend. (Quote by - Lincoln)
You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time. (Quote by - Lincoln)
I don't know the rules of grammar. If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language. (Quote by - Ogilvy)
If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him. (Quote by - Johnson)
When a heart is on fire, sparks always fly out of the mouth. (Quote by - Proverb)
Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his opinion in the course of a year no matter how absurd that opinion might be. We see every day in politics, in business, in social life, large masses of people brought to embrace the most revolutionary ideas, sometimes within a few days. It is all a question of getting hold of them in the right way and working on their weak points. (Quote by - Crowley)
Persuasion is better than force. (Quote by - Proverb)
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. (Quote by - Goethe)
When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith. (Quote by - Junius)
Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them? (Quote by - Horace)