Quotes About Persuasion

Pity can be a powerful tool. Anytime you can make someone else feel something, you've got power over them.

Jasnah didn't want to merely prove her points. She wanted to drive them right into your skull, with a flourish and a pithy epigram.

A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them." Elend

My dear friend, the entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don't you know anything about basic economics? - Breeze

Not contradicting a point and proving it are different things.

Of course," Blushweaver said. "I positively love people who do as they should. 'Should' being defined as whatever I think is best.

You have good ideas, Elend Venture," Tindwyl said. "Regal ideas. However, you are not a king. A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them.

Using a fetching face to make men do as you wish is no different from a man using muscle to force a woman to his will, she'd said. Both are base, and both will fail a person as they age. No

I'm not the Ascendant Warior, Wayne,' she said. 'And I don't particularly care to be. I don't want someone I have to convince, someone I have to rope into submission. That sort of thing is for the courtroom, not the bedroom.

He'd been convinced that if he could just explain his condition to the city, they would all listen to reason and let him control their lives perfectly.

Never trust a man who tells you good news, Reen had always said. It's the oldest, but easiest, way to con someone.

Brother?" Gavilar said. Dalinar turned back and regarded Gavilar, who was bathed by the bleeding light of a fire reaching its end. "Words are important," Gavilar said. "Much more than you give them credit for being." "Perhaps," Dalinar said. "But if they were all-powerful, you wouldn't need my sword, would you?" "Perhaps. I can't help feeling words would be enough, if only I knew the right ones to say.

Words are important," Gavilar said. "Much more than you give them credit for being." "Perhaps," Dalinar said. "But if they were all-powerful, you wouldn't need my sword, would you?" "Perhaps. I can't help feeling words would be enough, if only I knew the right ones to say.

Anytime you can make someone else feel something, you've got power over them.

You underestimate the stubbornness a crown can press into a man or woman's mind.

Advertising is an over $200 billion a year industry. We are each exposed to over 3000 ads a day. Yet, remarkably, most of us believe we are not influenced by advertising.

Sheer scholarship alone cannot reveal to us the gospel of grace. We must never allow the authority of books, institutions, or leaders to replace the authority of KNOWING Jesus Christ personally and directly. When the religious views of others interpose between us and the primary experience of Jesus as the Christ, we become unconvicted and unpersuasive travel agents handing out brochures to places we have never visited.

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

Words without poetry lack passion; words without passion lack persuasion; words without persuasion lack power.

Seward would inspire a cow with statesmanship if she understood our language.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.

Our doubts are so musical that they persuade themselves.

Si vous voulez convaincre un homme qu'il agit mal, agissez bien. Mais ne vous souciez pas de le convaincre. Les hommes croient ce qu'ils voient. Alors, donnez-leur à voir.

What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study.