Persuasion Quotes

“The only way to change someone's mind is to connect with them from the heart.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“You're welcome to as much wine as you can drink, Ares."

...[Ares] watched two bare-breasted women stroll by. "Am I welcome to your worshippers as well?"

"If they'll have you. Force yourself on anyone, though, and the cat gets to gnaw on your anatomy." Dionysos nodded to Agria, who prowled around the crowd. "Those are the rules."

Ares smirked. ... "No problem there. I'm very persuasive."

Hermes shook his head at Dionysos and mouthed in comical exaggeration, *No, he's not.*”
― Molly Ringle, Underworld's Daughter

“What does it mean to be an advocate?
In its broadest sense, advocacy means “any public action to support and recommend a cause, policy or practice.” That covers a lot of public actions, from displaying
 a bumper sticker to sounding off with a bullhorn. But whether the action is slapping something on the back of a car or speaking in front of millions, every act of advocacy involves making some kind of public statement, one that says, “I support this.” Advocacy is a communicative act. Advocacy is also a persuasive act. “I support this” is usually followed by another statement (sometimes only implied): “...and you should, too.” Advocacy not only means endorsing a cause or idea, but recommending, promoting, defending, or arguing for it.”
― John Capecci and Timothy Cage, Living Proof: Telling Your Story to Make a Difference

“The person who has been accustomed to subdue men by force will be less inclined to the trouble of convincing or persuading them.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Major Works

“When manipulation flutters around everywhere, neither pull nor push anyone. Just do one thing - don't trust anyone!”
― Ashish Patel

“Heart language is logic set on fire.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

“Nonsense does not improve by being bellowed.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

“He did what good lawyers always do. He shifted his argument in the direction his audience was already going.”
― Jeffrey Toobin, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court

“Lyndon Johnson’s sentences were the sentences of a man with a remarkable gift for words, not long words but evocative, of a man with a remarkable gift for images, homey images of a vividness that infused the sentences with drama.”
― Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate

“Rapport is the link between meeting and communicating.”
― Nicholas Boothman, How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less

“Never act surprised in a courtroom.”
― Stephen L. Carter, The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln

“Those who rule have always had an interest in shaping the perceptions of those they wish to rule. But never in the history of humanity has their toolbox been so full. Advances in technology and psychology have enabled the messages of the rulers to permeate our consciousness to a degree no prior society could have imagined.”
― James Rozoff

“We must also and always be discerning about the spirit of the age in any generation, which today means squarely facing the seductions of technique.”
― Os Guinness

“There are no foolproof methods of persuasion, and those that come closest are coercive and dangerous because they override the will rather than convince the mind.”
― Os Guinness, Fool's Talk: Recovering the Art of Christian Persuasion

“Politics look very simple to the outsider whether he is a businessman or a soldier – it is only when you get into it that all the angles and hard work become apparent. James Forrestal”
― David Pietrusza, 1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Transformed America

“Descriptions all fall flat and tame unless the Holy Ghost fills them with life and power”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version

“If we cannot prevail with men for God, we will at least endeavor to prevail with God for men.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

“A dash of humor will only add intense gravity to the proceedings, even as a flash of lightning only makes midnight dreariness all the more impressive.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

“Even in a hostile press conference with hostile questions there was drama, and he could benefit from the drama and the hostility. He mastered the greatest art of television, appearing to be spontaneous without in fact being spontaneous.”
― David Halberstam, The Powers That Be

“Johnson had a sense of humor, and he could kid with me,” he would say. “Johnson didn’t enjoy talking with most liberals. He didn’t think they had a sense of humor.”
― Hubert H. Humphrey

“The task of defending capitalism was still important to leave to the capitalists.”
― Rick Perlstein, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

“Perlstein says a movement gives you a chance, "to make anger boiling inside you ennobling, productive, powerful, instead of embittering.”
― Rick Perlstein, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

“A candidate with no experience they would package as a citizen politician, a lifetime hack as an elder statesman.”
― Rick Perlstein, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

“Fifties advertising was a dogmatic art, to the point of pretending to be a science.”
― Rick Perlstein, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

“Teddy White lamented that TV might spell the death of serious politics: to give a thoughtful response to serious questions, politician needed a good thirty seconds to ponder, but television allowed only five seconds of silence at best. DDB (ad men) found nothing to lament and the fact. They were convinced you could learn everything you needed to KNOW about a product, which in this case happens to be a human being, in half a minute – the speed not of thought but of emotion.”
― Rick Perlstein, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

“Goldwater hardly ever mentioned a statistic. He hardly ever used it EXAMPLE. He presumed you already knew what he meant. Reagan SHOWED you.”
― Rick Perlstein, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

“In spite of his Cold War credentials, Kennedy still believed in the power of words.”
― Stephen L. Carter, Back Channel

“And sometimes it doesn't matter how hard you try, how persuasive you can be, how much skill you have... you can't have everything. Sometimes you just can't win."

"No. Sometimes you don't win." He gets to his feet, and Red stands beside him. "But I'll be damned if that's going to stop me from trying.”
― daystar721

“The age can be impressed. Anything will be accepted by men if you will but preach it with tremendous enthusiasm, emotion, persuasionnergy and living earnestness.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

“He seemed to believe that indignation was a sufficient guardian.”
― Stephen L. Carter, The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln