Quotes about Persuasion

A ruler can be persuaded through patience, and a gentle tongue can break a bone. Proverbs 25:15

I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to guard what has been entrusted to me until that day. 2 Timothy 1:12

It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence.

Movie and television stars lay down the law of fashions, manners, speech, and even moral behavior. It has been proven that a movie or a television program can brainwash.

The television, iPod, and Internet have trespassed upon the innocence of America's children, while preoccupied mothers and dispassionate fathers stare aghast wondering what went wrong. They don't stop to think of their own contributions to the persuasions influencing their children. After all, where do kids as young as elementary age get money to rent rock videos and the latest rap DVDs?

I am becoming aware of the truth that people change people as much as ideas change people. The power of personality is strong... often personality is greater than the idea.

Sincerity is the biggest part of selling anything -- including the Christian plan of salvation.

You can fool some people some times but you cant fool all the people all the time

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Sometimes it appears that we're reaching a period when our senses and our minds will no longer respond to moderate stimulation. We seem to be approaching an Age of the Gross. Persuasion through speeches and books is too often discarded for disruptive demonstrations aimed at bludgeoning the unconvinced into action.

An argument may remove doubt, but only the Holy Spirit can convict of truth.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.