Quotes About Persuasion

Like most people who go to prison for an unfair thing, we become more persuaded in our own beliefs.

A lie has always a certain amount of weight with those who wish to believe it.

If you don't have the confidence to ask, you will never have the confidence to convince.

If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.

State first, subject second, statesman last.

Bait, no matter how big, is useless if fish don't want it.

one idiot can shut 1000 wise men mouths, where as 1000 wise will fail to open the eyes of an idiot.

Coat your words with honey if you want to catch bees.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaAdherent:Someone who will believe anything except what he should.

Words are more dangerous than swords and guns. They reach further and hurt deeper.

You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.

A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.

When you keep telling yourself a lie, at some point you buy your own cover story, like a CIA spy or something.

I train with joy and fun, because if I'm not persuaded by the squad at my disposal, I try changing things around, moving players into new positions, and trying something different; otherwise, I get bored.

I found that if I stack the moments correctly, people will believe in the most outrageous things.

If people don't sit at Chaplin's feet, he goes out and stands where they are sitting.

If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers

It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues; and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Men willingly believe when they want to.

A man with an experience of God is never at the mercy of a man with an argument.

. . . if [writing] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men; . . .

The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.

If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.