Persuasion quotes

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◆ A player will tell you anything to get you, but they won't do anything to keep you.

- Sonya Parker100

◆ Odours have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions or will. The persuasive power of an odour cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it.

- Patrick Suskind99

◆ A man does not recover from such a passion, from such a woman, he ought not, he does not.

- Captain Wentworth99

◆ You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.

- Ben Goldacre99

◆ We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.

- Oscar Wilde99

◆ There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.

- Dennis Prager99

◆ To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

- Edward R Murrow99

◆ The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

- Zig Ziglar99

◆ It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands

- Andre Gide99

◆ Even if the committee carried the message in the exact words with no words missing, but left out the persuasion of gesture, the supplicating tone, and the beseeching looks which inform the words and give them life, where then were the power of the arguments and whom would it convince?

- Joan Of Arc99

◆ First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.

- Huston Smith99

◆ In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.

- Donald Rumsfeld99

◆ The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion constitutionality is no match with compassion.

- Everett Dirksen99

◆ Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

- Friedrich Von Schiller99

◆ Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

- Dennis Prager99