Quotes About Persuasion

Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.

Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning.

Nothing is ever done until everyone is convinced that it ought to be done, and has been convinced for so long that it is now time to do something else.

I'm not a rubber stamp, and people know that. If you can convince me of the merits, you will have my vote every time.

And a diplomatist is one who lets the other fellow think he's getting his way, while all the time he's having his own. It never does any special harm to let people have their way with their mouths.

By getting your customers to agree with you in small steps along the way, you have a better chance of reaching agreement when it's time to do business.

He's the kind of liar who totally forgets what he told you the last time, but he believes every single lie with such conviction that sometimes he can convince you of it.

Youcanfooltoomanyofthepeopletoomuchofthetime. See Lincoln 510:35.

I see movies all the time that manipulate you by playing a high note on the piano or some string instrument, and suddenly you're crying. I'm sick of being told what to think.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.

Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.

When they tell me things I wish to hear, I invariably believe them.

And some people have the gift of speaking the truth and convincing their listeners that it is a lie.

She wants him to stay. She wants to be persuaded.

Cato was the most vociferous enemy of Carthage, notoriously, tediously but ultimately persuasively ending every speech he made with the words 'Carthage must be destroyed' ('Carthago delenda est', in the still familiar Latin phrase).

No matter how many tangents he took or how far the tale flew from its starting point before he reeled it back, he had this gift: he knew how to be believed.

It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she, whom we saw every day, and whose very existence appeared a part of our own, can have departed for ever.

I persuaded myself that I was dreaming until night should come and that I should then enjoy reality in the arms of my dearest friends.

I imagined that they would be disgusted, until, by my gentle demeanor and conciliating words, I should first win their favour, and afterwards their love.

But I did not believe my errors to be irretrievable; and, after much consideration, I resolved to return to the cottage, seek the old man, and by my representations win him to my party.

I would reconcile him to life, but he repulses the idea

He lost no time in endeavouring to seek him out, with the hope of persuading him to begin the world again

and once his words had even power over my heart;