Quotes About Persuasion

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

Real power has to do with one's ability to influence the hearts and minds of others.

How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they

Leadership requires using power to influence the thoughts and actions of other people.

While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.

Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats.

There's more power in being Oprah Winfrey than in being Barack Obama.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

Words, like angels, are powers which have invisible power over us.

Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.

One man saying that everything is wrong can command coast-to-coast attention in living color, a power not given to an absolute monarch a century ago.

You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power.

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.

The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.

If you have no power, talk about your influence. If you have power, talk about the constraints that hem you in.

Never mistake the power of influence

The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart; that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.

The corporations and the media don't need power; they already have it.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

Words have incredible power. They can make people's hearts soar, or they can make people's hearts sore.

My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything.

The power of the media is really the only new issue in the last 50 years, probably.

Power is founded upon opinion.