Quotes about Persuasion
The Machiavelli of the 20th century will be an advertising man, his Prince , a textbook of the art and science of fooling all the people all the time.
— Aldous Huxley
I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.
— Dr. Seuss
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Do your homework and know your facts, but remember it's passion that persuades.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Persuasion is better than force.
— Aesop
You have your season, and you have but your season; neither can you lie down in peace, until you have some persuasion that your work as well as your life is at an end.
— John Owen
People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
— Vernon Howard
I'm merely trying to give you the sort of argument that would appeal to your intelligence.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
She could make fascinating and almost brilliant conversation out of the thinnest air that ever floated through a drawing-room.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
If you're explaining, you're losing.
— Ronald Reagan
Compel a person to an opinion, a conviction, a belief - in all eternity, that I cannot do. But one thing I can do: I can compel him to become aware.
— Soren Kierkegaard
It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
— Aristotle