Quotes about Persuade

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Votes: 3

It's Not My Job To Try To Persuade People To Love Me, It's Only To Try To Make Them Love The Music Votes: 3

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair. Votes: 3

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. Votes: 3

Persuade your fellow citizens it's a good idea and pass a law. That's what democracy is all about. It's not about nine superannuated judges who have been there too long, imposing these demands on society. Votes: 3

Others first. Whatever your corporate mission, paint a clear and compelling picture that others can understand and embrace. State your mission in terms that appeal to your team's best instincts. Persuade and empower as if you are leading and mentoring volunteers. Votes: 3

Persuade me or prove to me that I am mistaken in thought or deed, and I will gladly change - for it is the truth I seek, and the truth never harmed anyone. Harm comes from persisting in error and clinging to ignorance. Votes: 3

Persuade yourselves, that the faith of the gospel is beyond the power of nature; that there is a necessity of a power from on high to bring you to believe. This will raze the old foundation, and cause you to look up for it. Votes: 3

If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility. Votes: 3

The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them. Votes: 2

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles. Votes: 1

Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence. Votes: 1

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. Votes: 1

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it. Votes: 1

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea. Votes: 1

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. Votes: 1

I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation. Votes: 1

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. Votes: 1

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars. Votes: 1

It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by language and how it is used by others. Votes: 1

John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization. Votes: 1

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal. Votes: 1

You don't tell people who disagree with you they'd be better off somewhere else. And you don't reduce them to stereotypes; you address them as fully formed people worthy of respect. You try to persuade them. Votes: 1

Insight into character comes from listening intently to the spoken word. The physical person, their charisma, charm and dramatic flair is more often used to persuade audiences, as they use these stealth tools of disguise and deception. Votes: 1

Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love. Votes: 1

For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people. Votes: 1

I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular. Votes: 1

Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily. Votes: 1

We're not going to persuade people in the developing world to go without, but neither can we afford a planet on which everyone lives like an American. Billions more people living in suburbs and driving SUVs to shopping malls is a recipe for planetary suicide. We can't even afford to continue that way of life ourselves. Votes: 1

I am trying to persuade my family to spend more time in China. It's no fun to be in exile. I can't even figure out the basic 26 letters, let alone operate, in English. I often feel that although I've found the sky of freedom above my head, I've lost the soil I stand on. I need to be back in my motherland, where I can find inspirations. Votes: 1

I don't persuade to suicide. Votes: 0

Good argument is intended to persuade another. Votes: 0

Presidential power is the power to persuade. Votes: 0

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. Votes: 0

Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade. Votes: 0

It is said that gifts persuade even the gods. Votes: 0

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason. Votes: 0

It's easier to scare someone than to persuade him. Votes: 0

The passions are the only orators which always persuade. Votes: 0

The best way to persuade is with your ears. Votes: 0

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel. Votes: 0

Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me. Votes: 0

I know people who will gently persuade you to be forthcoming. Votes: 0

You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity. Votes: 0

Laughter and tears may not persuade, but they cannot be refuted. Votes: 0

A brain you can convince, a simpleton you have to persuade. Votes: 0

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. Votes: 0

Government can take your money at gunpoint; businesses have to persuade you. Votes: 0

An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct. Votes: 0

Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'. Votes: 0

A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking. Votes: 0

Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade . . . Votes: 0

Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince. Votes: 0

Don't persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen. Votes: 0

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade the eyes of men without an orator. Votes: 0

I have no permanent enemies - only people I have yet to persuade. Votes: 0

You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time. Votes: 0

One of the best ways to persuade others is by listening to them. Votes: 0

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist. Votes: 0

Stories are the things that allow us to persuade each other that we're human. Votes: 0

The secret of all true persuasion is to induce the person to persuade himself. Votes: 0

A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands. Votes: 0

What made me love thee? let that persuade thee, there's something extraordinary in thee Votes: 0

The wonderful thing about God is he knows what we need to persuade us. Votes: 0

The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument. Votes: 0

We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones. Votes: 0

Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves. Votes: 0

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones. Votes: 0

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good. Votes: 0

To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory. Votes: 0

Don't let the doom criers and the cynics persuade you that the best is past. Votes: 0

I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability. Votes: 0

That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out. Votes: 0

... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it. Votes: 0

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them. Votes: 0

It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves. Votes: 0

We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own Votes: 0

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me Votes: 0

If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin. Votes: 0

I consider myself a persuasive person. With the ability to persuade comes a certain level of power. Votes: 0

It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything. Votes: 0

You can't persuade most of the public that education and making a living aren't the same thing. Votes: 0

We've got to rebuild human hearts - and persuade people that hope isn't just possible, but essential. Votes: 0

We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen. Votes: 0

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. Votes: 0

Agree to these ground rules: Be curious, conversational and real. Don't persuade or interrupt. Listen, listen, listen. Votes: 0

It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties. Votes: 0

The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest. Votes: 0

People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion; [the leader] must both persuade them and move them. Votes: 0

It is in the highest interests of the devil to persuade the world that religious people are disagreeable. Votes: 0

My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game. Votes: 0

The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise... Votes: 0

Hitler understood the demagogues' essential principle to teach or persuade is far more difficult than to stir emotion. Votes: 0

If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words. Votes: 0

He hadn't realized yet that Gansey could persuade even the sun to pause and give him the time. Votes: 0

We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves Votes: 0

Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all. Votes: 0

The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it. Votes: 0

Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay Votes: 0

There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims. Votes: 0

A bind is when you're quadriplegic, suicidal about that and unable to persuade your best friend to murder you. Votes: 0

Causality is a pointless superstition. These days it would take more than one book to persuade anyone of that. Votes: 0

We must persuade Iran not t have nuclear weapons through peaceful and diplomatic means. We want a peaceful planet. Votes: 0

Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you. Votes: 0

Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I shall end up an old maid. Votes: 0

Hopefully people will be inspired to cook. It's my mission to persuade people not to be afraid of cooking. Votes: 0

If I could persuade myself that I could find Him in a Himalayan cave I would proceed there immediately. Votes: 0

Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work. Votes: 0

Obviously, a power player in a criminal organization doesnt have to persuade anyone. He can just do what he wants. Votes: 0

Organizations grow when they persuade a tiny cadre to be passionate, not when they touch millions with a mediocre message Votes: 0

When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period. Votes: 0

To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it. Votes: 0

...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded. Votes: 0

Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were. Votes: 0

The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius. Votes: 0

I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise. Votes: 0

To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce. Votes: 0

Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life. Votes: 0

The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills. Votes: 0

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficient and omnipotent God would have designedly created...that a cat should play with mice. Votes: 0

It's actually easier to truly become a person of good character than to persuade others we are what we are not. Votes: 0

With love you could persuade a Pathan to go to Hell, but by force you couldn't even take him to Heaven. Votes: 0

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. Votes: 0

Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade. Votes: 0

I can't persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me. Votes: 0

With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity. Votes: 0

Alcohol may also persuade us that we have found the truth about life, a comforting experience rarely available in the sober hour. Votes: 0

Leaders have two characteristics: first they are going somewhere, and second they are able to persuade other people to go with them. Votes: 0

The Father did not require the death of Christ to persuade Him to love us. Christ died because the Father loves us. Votes: 0

A Spaniard will seek to persuade you that the bull-ring is an institution got up chiefly for the benefit of the bull. Votes: 0

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go. Votes: 0

It is an anomaly that we can split the atom, but we are nearly powerless to persuade each other to embrace justice. Votes: 0

I like [Barak] Obama. I like him. So how far does rationality help to persuade anybody? You know, I'm not so sure. Votes: 0

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do. Votes: 0

I can’t persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me, Votes: 0

the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want. Votes: 0

I find that the hardest work in the world... is to persuade Easterners that growing up in the West is not intellectually crippling. Votes: 0

Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under cross-examination. Votes: 0

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics. Votes: 0

It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them. Votes: 0

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally. Votes: 0

Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience. Votes: 0

But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong. Votes: 0

All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do--remember that--and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade. Votes: 0

Clothes can suggest, persuade, connote, insinuate, or indeed lie, and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of other matters. Votes: 0

I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win - win situation. Votes: 0

Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience." Votes: 0

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise. Votes: 0

You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the greatest act of faith can persuade you that what's left will be human. Votes: 0

The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body. Votes: 0

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense. Votes: 0

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information. Votes: 0

It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can. Votes: 0

It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger. Votes: 0

The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do. Votes: 0

I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more Votes: 0

I formed a new group called Alcoholics-Unanimous. If you don't feel like a drink, you ring another member and he comes over to persuade you. Votes: 0

You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his Votes: 0

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all. Votes: 0

You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever. Votes: 0

E? loquence quipersuade par douceur, non par empire, en tyran, non en roi. Eloquence should persuade gently, not by force or like a tyrant or king. Votes: 0

My dear brothers, never forget, when you hear the progress of enlightenment vaunted, that the devil's best trick is to persuade you that he doesn't exist! Votes: 0

We are trying to persuade all the Iraqi opposition to come breathe freedom in Iraq and use liberated Kurdistan as a base for our common struggle. Votes: 0

Especially difficult when the first and best unconscious move of a dedicated liar is to persuade himself he's sincere. And once he's sincere, all deception vanishes. Votes: 0

A cultivated wit, one that badgers less, can persuade all the more. Artful ridicule can address contentious issues more competently and vigorously than can severity alone. Votes: 0

The Conservative Party have got to ask themselves, 'How do we persuade people who at the moment are voting Labour and Liberal Democrat to vote Conservative Votes: 0

I don't know that you're ever going to persuade New Zealanders that they're not going to own their own homes and I'm not going to try. Votes: 0

The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the skies and encouraged parochial Americans to go out and see the world. Votes: 0

What higher obligation does a President have than to explain his intentions to the people and persuade them that the direction he wishes to go is right? Votes: 0

If one really believes that the metaphysic one adopts has much to commend it, then one should obviously try to persuade others of its truth or acceptability! Votes: 0

Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game. Votes: 0

To persuade your enemy to (retreat) before the fight is to defeat them even before the battle begins. An enemy made ally is no longer an enemy. Votes: 0

He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers. Votes: 0

Baby you should bring your best friend, then you should persuade her to let me get some sex in. Don't get offended, baby, that's just a suggestion Votes: 0

People who trust me will not be swayed by what's been said about me, and for people who don't, no amount of good reports will persuade them. Votes: 0

To bring one's self to believe in a truth that has just dawned upon one is the first step towards progress; to persuade others is the second. Votes: 0

Tomorrow you may want to persuade somebody to do something. Before you speak, pause and as yourself, "How can I make this person want to do it? Votes: 0

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century. Votes: 0

Man without religion is a diseased creature, who would persuade himself he is well and needs not a physician; but woman without religion is raging and monstrous. Votes: 0

La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas."("The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.") Votes: 0

For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it. Votes: 0

I work in a world of words - words that inspire, words that persuade and, increasingly, words that can send the message that it is acceptable to hate. Votes: 0

The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry Votes: 0

Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part. Votes: 0

Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms." Votes: 0

At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better Votes: 0

Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms. Votes: 0

I don't know the rules of grammar. If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language. Votes: 0

The art of fiction is one of constant seduction. You must persuade the reader on page 1 to start reading - on page 50, or page 150 and yes, on page 850. Votes: 0

The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist. Votes: 0

The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry. Votes: 0

Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity. Votes: 0

In his voice resonated the timbre of a man who thinks he has convinced himself of an idea, but masks his own doubt by laboring to persuade others. Votes: 0

In the end, a theory is accepted not because it is confirmed by conventional empirical tests, but because researchers persuade one another that the theory is correct and relevant. Votes: 0

The words we use don't matter as much as the emotion behind the words. When we understand this, we have the ability to influence, inspire, persuade and affect others. Votes: 0

It's an academic book, and it's discussed under academic criteria. German historians cultivate so-called objectivity. They persuade themselves that they can switch off the subjective and therefore the unsettling. Votes: 0

[Leaves of Grass is] monstrous because it pretends to persuade the soul while it slights the intellect; because it pretends to gratify the feelings while it outrages the taste. Votes: 0

Losing can persuade you to change what doesn't need to be changed, and winning can convince you everything is fine even if you are on the brink of disaster. Votes: 0

It is a sweet thing to have someone love you, but it is a far sweeter thing when his actions convince your heart, and his words persuade your soul. Votes: 0

The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are. Votes: 0

In the morning I had decided that henceforth I only cared for easy loves. It is so degrading to have to persuade people into liking one, or one's works. Votes: 0

Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war. Votes: 0

Mat had tried to make her say she saw a hat floating around Mat's head. That would persuade Tuon to stop trying to get rid of his, would it not? Votes: 0

Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant. Votes: 0

You persuade people with passion, so you've got to have a product or service you feel emotionally charged about. Then you can tell stories about it that will inspire others. Votes: 0

I cannot persuade myself that without love to others, and without, as far as rests with me, peaceableness toward all, I can be called a worthy servant of Jesus Christ. Votes: 0

No argument can persuade me to like oysters if I do not like them. In other words, the disturbing thing about matters of taste is that they are not communicable. Votes: 0

The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Prayer is not an argument with God to persuade him to move things our way, but an exercise by which we are enabled by his Spirit to move ourselves his way. Votes: 0

I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words. Votes: 0

I don't really usually push an agenda, and I don't feel that my main job is to persuade people of something. My main job is to help them think about something. Votes: 0

I would absolutely refuse any direct or indirect war service and would try to persuade my friends to do the same, regardless of the reasons for the cause of a war. Votes: 0

We must seek to persuade member states and institutions that better regulation in Europe does not mean cutting health and safety in the workplace, nor does it mean dismantling social standards. Votes: 0

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...? Votes: 0

I think my reputation will look after itself," Holmes said. "If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding. Votes: 0

... I have noticed that no sooner do people embark on a course of action which they do not find wholly satisfactory than they muster every argument to persuade others to imitate it ... Votes: 0

There is all of this protesting against corporate power, but in reality, corporations have to persuade you - they could have a ton of money, but actually only government can use force. Votes: 0

The human world is full of weak-minded people, who think they're as clever as can be and are convinced that it's terribly important to persuade even the children that Fanstastica doesn't exist. Votes: 0

Its better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds. Votes: 0

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide? Votes: 0

Our political parties exist for no other reason than to win power; they are not ideological debating societies designed to present a particular political philosophy and to persuade voters to accept it. Votes: 0

Over many years, the United States has worked to persuade and compel governments around the world to abide by the rules. By spurning our own rules, we put that effort at risk. Votes: 0

For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt. Votes: 0

The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures, Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out. Votes: 0

It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life. Votes: 0

The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who they are, and how to persuade them. Votes: 0

If I were in the government, I would persuade the prime minister to see the beauty in the fact that people see Israel as a haven - from their sadness to their hope. Votes: 0

Ever since [Ronald] Reagan, they've been able to capture the message and an understanding - or persuade people of a certain understanding of what the nation is about and what's good for it. Votes: 0

When the initial effort of political and business leaders to influence public opinion on an issue is to threaten rather than to engage and persuade, they further arouse public opposition rather than win support. Votes: 0

When evangelical leaders can persuade the president to be concerned about what's happening in Sudan, or sex trafficking around the world, or HIV-AIDS, that's a very good thing. I am completely supportive of that. Votes: 0

If you take a position under the Constitution that is against the majority view, you have to explain it well enough that maybe you can persuade some of that majority to agree with you. Votes: 0

What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee that they are the end of all things: so vain are they. Votes: 0

I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to. Votes: 0

A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate. Votes: 0

How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with LOVE, and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts. Votes: 0

All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary. Votes: 0

If a Christian really believed that his neighbor will be tortured in all eternity in Hell, he should try day and night to persuade him to repent and believe. How sad that this doesn't happen. Votes: 0

I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me. Votes: 0

Tempus never left a problem for another to solve. Tempus never let the pain or difficulty of an undertaking persuade him not to pursue a resolution his heart thought was right. Tempus never gave up. Votes: 0

It is doubtless wise, when a reform is introduced, to try to persuade the British public that it is not a reform at all; but appearances must be kept up to some extent at least. Votes: 0

When you start writing things to try to persuade someone who's not already part of your guild or your profession that something is interesting, it forces you to ask yourself, "Well, why is this interesting?" Votes: 0

But the idea is to provoke and persuade, not to soothe. And the best way to make an argument is to make it, straightforwardly, honestly, passionately, without regard to whether people will like you afterward. Votes: 0

The best way [to survive] the red carpet is by wearing Ugg boots. But unfortunately, I have not yet managed to persuade the people who style me at these times to let me do that. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Good website practice and optimizing for conversion usually makes for good search engine optimization. These work together to ensure you drive quality traffic and can persuade that traffic to help you meet your business goals. Votes: 0

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot Votes: -1

A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify. Votes: -1