Power Of Persuasion Quotes

• Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor 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 Süskind

  Stronger, Odor, Scent

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

  Edward R. Murrow

  Truth, Honesty, Integrity

  Testimony before a Congressional Committee, pdaa.publicdiplomacy.org. May 1963.

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• 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.

  Joseph Conrad

  Wisdom, Intelligence, Sound

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.1113, e-artnow

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• I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time.

  Jenny Mollen

  Thinking, Would Be, Persuasion

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

  Aesop

  Hypnosis, Literature, Persuasion

  "The Wind and the Sun". A fable by Aesop,

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• I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.

  Yitzhak Shamir

  Inspiring, Leadership, Strong

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• In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Hypnosis, Speech

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Rhetoric”, p.148, Aeterna Press

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• The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.

  Steven Biko

  Perseverance, Lying, Dedication

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• The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

  Mark Skousen

  Liberty, Libertarian, Triumph

  "Civilization Held Together by Persuasion, Not Force". The Religion & Liberty Interview, acton.org. July 20, 2010.

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• Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Peace, Powerful, Hammers

  "Robert Frost & the New England Renaissance". Book by George Monteiro (p. 74), September 27, 1988.

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• Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

  William Bernbach

  Art, Business, Advertising

  "Letters of Note: Volume 2: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience". Book by Shaun Usher (p.190), 2016.

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• Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - there, if one must speak out, the real man.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Real, Self Esteem

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (Book X, Chapter 38), circa 170.

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

  Everett Dirksen

  Heart, Compassion, Mind

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• Ninety percent of selling is conviction and 10 percent is persuasion.

  Shiv Khera

  Motivational Sales, Persuasion, Selling

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• Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Kings, World, Persuasion

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• A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.

  Alfred Nobel

  Love, Heart, Persuasion

  "Nobel Laureates, 1901-2000". Book by Alan Symons (p.1), 2000.

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• The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Oratory, Persuasion, Objects

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• The spiritual power in the gospel is denied when we augment or adjusting gospel into no gospel at all. When we doubt the message alone is the power of God for salvation we start adding or subtracting, trusting our own powers of persuasion or presentation.

  Matt Chandler

  Spiritual, Doubt, Adjusting

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• Barack Obama seemed to think he could win over his enemies. He certainly seemed to believe too much in his own powers of persuasion. One thing's for sure - he misunderstood the nature of his adversaries.

  Bill Moyers

  Believe, Winning, Thinking

  Source: progressive.org

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• My powers of persuasion are only as strong as the bullshit I have to back it up. - Charley Davidson

  Darynda Jones

  Strong, Bullshit, Persuasion

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.262, St. Martin's Press

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• Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.

  Richard Mentor Johnson

  Religious, Constitution, Persuasion

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• We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Afterlife, Want, Path

  "Today" on BBC Radio 4, news.bbc.co.uk. March 01, 2005.

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• The barbarian chieftain, who defended his country against the Roman invasion, driven to the remotest extremity of Britain, and stimulating his followers to battle, by all that has power of persuasion upon the human heart, concludes his exhortation by an appeal to these irresistible feelings - "Think of your forefathers and of your posterity."

  John Quincy Adams

  Country, Heart, Thinking

  John Quincy Adams's Oration delivered at Plymouth at The Anniversary Commemoration of The Landing Of The Pilgrims, December 22, 1802.

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• I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.

  Pete Seeger

  Situations In Life, Color, Political

  "When Pete Seeger Faced Down the House Un-American Activities Committee" by Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. January 28, 2014.

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• ... 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.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Lying, Persuasion, Authority

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