Persuasion Quotes

"Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe." "Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy" "Words are loaded pistols." "It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce." "Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question" "It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea." "There is no sale without the story; no knockout without the setup." "When one with honeyed words but evil mind persuades the mob, great woes befall the state" "Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it" "You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done" "He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak" "The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist" "When you can't make them see the light make them feel the heat" "Ideas are not susceptible to the force of bayonets " "People are more likely to accept an idea if you can make them think it was their own." "To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead" "People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive" "The best way to get information from people is to make them think you already know it" "I believe that the most powerful weapon you can have is the power of conversation." "When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it"