Persuasive Quotes

Persuasive Quote of the day

You must learn all things, both the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, and the opinions of mortals in which there is no true warranty.

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.

A drunk driver is very dangerous. So is a drunk backseat driver if he's persuasive.

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.

Nobody is more persuasive than a good listener

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.

It is not a persuasive argument that an evil should continue because it has existed in the past.

What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.

The carrot and the stick are prevasive and persuasive motivators. But if you treat people like donkeys, they will perform like donkeys.

The more you know about your customers, the more you can provide to them information that is increasingly useful, relevant, and persuasive.

Although I was once sharply critical of the argument to design, I have since come to see that, when correctly formatted, this argument constitutes a persuasive case for the existence of God.

Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn prejudices operate in their greatest force.

The goal is not to make something factually impeccable, but seamlessly persuasive.

The Christian truth is attractive and persuasive because it responds to humanity's deepest needs.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to tell them...For as long as you are green, you can grow.

We can be dramatic, even theatrical; we can be persuasive; but the message we are telling must be true.

Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.

In general, talking about human rights tends to be very persuasive for people who care about human rights.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.

I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive, then I know I’m truly persuasive.

Speaking passionately from the very center of who you are is compelling, forceful, persuasive: that’s what leadership sounds like.

You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.

The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.

I haven’t even really tried to win you over, Roza. When I want to, I can be very persuasive.

We like to imagine that in history, truth will prevail through sheer persuasive power. Sadly, this is not the case. Truth needs champions.

Persuasive communication involves enthusiasm, animation, audience participation, authenticity and spontaneity.

I find the evidence for the deity of Jesus and the reliability of the Bible to be powerful and persuasive, and that evidence has only gotten stronger over the years.

Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.

Speaking with passion born of your own authentic experience and belief is always persuasive.

Kindness is more persuasive than force.

Keep going until you get good counsel that is persuasive for you that you should go elsewhere.

Overly persuasive a woman's ordinance spreads far, traveling fast; but fast dying a rumor voiced by a woman perishes.

Find the simple story in the product, and present it in an articulate and intelligent, persuasive way.

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.

Our task is not one of producing persuasive propaganda; Christianity shows its greatness when it is hated by the world.

How difficult it is to sound persuasive at the top of one's voice!

The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation for any outcome, you have zero knowledge.

Recapitulation provided a convenient focus for the persuasive racism of white scientists; they looked to the activities of their own children for comparison with normal adult behavior in lower races.

Good leadership is pervasive, persuasive, and persistent. Bad leadership is poisoned with pedanticism, posturing, self-importance.

There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

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.

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.

The great enemy of the truth is not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest but the myth persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

If you can’t be persuasive to get people to believe your crazy idea, you can just go ahead and build it.

For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.