Best Persuasion Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 6

Source: Course of popular lectures as delivered by Frances Wright: with three addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789. Second edition

“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.”

Men Should Humans Kind Would Be Courses Influence Human Nature Opposites Persuasion Adopted Disagreement Decree Reversal Unassuming

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies. Persuasion, perseverance and patience are the best advocates on questions depending on the will of others.”

Causes Effort Enemy Argument Perseverance Ill Persuasion Injured Good Causes

Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.”

Mind Firsts Kind Character Certain Three Audience Depends Speech Thirds Proof Speakers Rhetoric Persuasion Spoken Word Frame Of Mind Personal Character

Author:Aristotle

“A sociosphere of contact, control, persuasion and dissuasion, of exhibitions of inhibitions in massive or homeopathic doses...: this is obscenity. All structures turned inside out and exhibited, all operations rendered visible. In America this goes all the way from the bewildering network of aerial telephone and electric wiresto the concrete multiplication of all the bodily functions in the home, the litany of ingredients on the tiniest can of food, the exhibition of income or IQ.”

“Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure, and second, that they feel themselves interested, so that self-love leads them more willingly to reflection upon it.”

Way Feels Firsts May Self Pain Speak Pleasure Self Love Reflection Persuasion Eloquence Without Pain

Author:Blaise Pascal

“A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho labour under incurable maladies; and to the youth of either sex, who are capable of beginning the world with advantage, but have not the means.”

Men World Mean Age Sex Poor Youth Goodness Capable Advantage Charity Accidents Labour Good Man Persuasion Infirmity Industrious Malady

Author:Samuel Richardson

“Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.”

People Needs Sometimes Form Winning Principles Clever Paradox Persuasion Shocking Sometimes All You Need

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.”

Shows Too Much Safe Distance Customers Shopping Persuasion Trout

Author:Mary Augusta Ward

“In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at least our equals.”

Art Imagination Grace Style Taste Persuasion Magnificence

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity, since it has such a remembrance of the best, such a concern for the future, since it is enriched with so many arts, sciences, and discoveries, it is impossible but the being which contains all these must be immortal.”

Humans Art Soul Impossible Activity Discovery Concern Firm Immortal Remembrance Persuasion Human Soul

Author:Cato the Younger

“The talent of insinuation is more useful than that of persuasion, as everybody is open to insinuation, but scarce any to persuasion.”

Talent Propaganda Gossip Persuasion Scarce

Book:The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

“In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned.”

Wells Sweet Firm Greek Temper Persuasion Gentleness Seeming

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“I do deeply deplore, of the sake of the cause, the prevalent notion, that the clergy must be had, either by persuasion or by bribery. They will not need persuasion or bribery, if their hearts are with us; if they are not, we are better without them. It is idle to suppose that the kingdom of heaven cannot come on earth, without their cooperation.”

Ifs Needs Heart Earth Heaven Causes Feminism Notion Sake Kingdoms Cooperation Idle Persuasion Kingdom Of Heaven Clergy Bribery

Author:Sarah Moore Grimke

“For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force...it is necessary to make a man better not by force but by persuasion. We neither have authority granted us by law to restrain sinners, nor, if it were, should we know how to use it, since God gives the crown to those who are kept from evil, not by force, but by choice.”

Ifs Knows Men Giving Should Use Christian Law Choices Evil Force Know How Authority Granted Sinner Crowns Persuasion Forbidden Stumbling

Author:Saint John Chrysostom

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

Want Firsts Steps Imagine Target First Steps Persuasion

Author:Roy H. Williams

“... truth ... carries authority with it; while falsehood and lies skulk under a load of words, without having the power of persuasion; the more they attempt to show themselves, the more they are entangled.”

Shows Lying Authority Carrie Load Falsehood Persuasion Power Of Persuasion

Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.”

Ifs World Body Language Principles Influence This World Taste Mere Active Seeds Your Body Temper Persuasion Contagion Pestilence

Book:Unconscious Influence; a sermon, etc

Source: Unconscious Influence; a sermon, etc

“There are many Americans who regardless of the intelligence or the profound political persuasion of a figure will never vote for a black man. Not all of them are racists; some are skeptical, and some are suspicious.”

Men Political Black Figures Vote Profound Racist Persuasion Suspicious Skeptical

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“People in every country should be free to choose and live their faith based upon the persuasion of the mind, and the heart, and the soul. This tolerance is essential for religion to thrive.”

People Should Mind Heart Soul Country Powerful Essentials Tolerance Thrive Persuasion Faith Based

Author:Barack Obama

“I felt the first inkling of a thing that presently grew quite clear in my mind, that oppressed me for many days, a sense of dethronement, a persuasion that I was no longer a master, but an animal among the animals, under the Martian heel.With us it would be as with them, to lurk and watch, to run and hide; the fear and empire of man had passed away.”

Men Mind Firsts Would Be Running Felt Animal Watches Clear Masters Grew Empires Heels Oppressed Apocalypse Persuasion Passed Away Martians

Book:H. G. Wells The Dover Reader

Source: H. G. Wells The Dover Reader

“Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.”

Should Children Path Teacher Teaching Walking Parenting Persuasion Right Path Severity

Author:Terence

“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.”

People Wells Ideas Inspiring Deals Company Conversation Clever Persuasion Brilliant Ideas Smart People Good Company Anne Elliot Good Food Good Company

Author:Jane Austen

“The point of a library's existence is not persuasion or evangelism, but knowledge. It is irrelevant to the good library whether, as an institution, it shares or promotes your core values or mine, or the Attorney General's or Saddam Hussein's. The library is always an instrument of choice, and the choice is always yours, not your elected or designated leaders.”

Values Choices Existence Leader Share Mines Institutions Instruments Library Core Persuasion Irrelevant Saddam Hussein Evangelism Attorney Core Values

Author:Robert Hughes

“How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!”

Reason Logic Math Reasoning Approval Persuasion Approving

Book:Persuasion In Modern English

Source: Persuasion In Modern English

“One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.”

Men Way May Literature One Man Persuasion

Author:Jane Austen

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

Love Doe Has Beens Suffering Persuasion Anne Elliot

Book:Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)

Source: Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)

“Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”

Men Has Beens Book Stories Hands Literature Inspiring Higher Prove Degrees Advantage Pens Persuasion Inconstancy Anne Elliot

Author:Jane Austen

“It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent, and moderate our persuasions.”

Certain Opinion Ought Bounds Worthwhile Persuasion Moderates Certain Knowledge

Book:An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“God has given us a revelation in regard to celestial marriage. I did not make it. He has told us certain things pertaining to this matter, and they would like us to tone that principle down and change it and make it applicable to the views of the day. This we cannot do; nor can we interfere with any of the commands of God to meet the persuasions or behests of men. I cannot do it, and will not do it.”

Men Matter Certain Given Views Principles Regard Down And Command Tone Revelations Interfere Persuasion Celestial Polygamy

Author:John Taylor

“I love the best of all the traditions. My discipline is the take-no-prisoners language of good poetry, but a language that actually frees us from prejudice, no matter what religion or political persuasion they are. I try to create a river-like discourse. The river is not political, it's not on your side or against you. It's an invitation into the onward flow.”

Trying Matter Political Language Sides Discipline Tradition Flow Rivers Prejudice No Matter What Prisoner Discourse Persuasion Invitations Your Side Good Poetry

Author:David Whyte

“The more aggressive our ideologies become, the more aggressive our discourse whether it's in the United States, from Washington D.C., or whether it's from Tehran, or from some underground Al-Qaeda cell. The more aggressive that discourse is, the more people of moderate persuasion have to organize and speak a voice of compassion. That means to feel with the other.”

People Feels Mean States Speak Voice United Compassion United States Ideology Cells Als Aggressive Organize Discourse Persuasion Moderates Al Qaeda Tehran

Author:Karen Armstrong

“Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind, from a vain persuasion that those who have no dependence except on their favor will have no attachment except to the person of their benefactor.”

Persons Lasts Mankind Favors Vain Attachment Dependence Persuasion Suspicious Benefactors

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.”

Giving Art Persuasion

Book:Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias

Source: Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias

“Marital partners often trigger in each other resourceless states—negative trance-like experiences in which partners feel devoid of satisfactory solutions. Carol Kershaw maps these interactional loops and provides Ericksonian strategies to help couples make their marriage entrancing. Therapists of all persuasions are sure to benefit from this important book.”