Persuasion Quotes

"Truth is always the strongest argument."

Sophocles

"Power is the most persuasive rhetoric."

Friedrich Schiller

"Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel."

"If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect."

"Persuasion is better than force."

Aesop

"The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity."

“If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time: a tremendous whack.”

“People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.”

“Time makes more converts than reason.”

“When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.”

“Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.”

“It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.”

“In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.”

“Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.”

“In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.”

"Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you."

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt but, being season'd with a gracious voice, obscures the show of evil?"

“If you can't convince them, confuse them.”

Harry S. Truman

“Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.”

Cicero