|
"Laws do not persuade just because they threaten." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
|
|
"If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect." »Benjamin Franklin
|
|
"We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves." »Confucius
|
|
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." »Francois de La Rochefoucauld
|
|
"I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone." »Dwight D Eisenhower
|
|
"...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded." »Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
|
|
"Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were." »W. H. Auden
|
|
"Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information." »Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
|
|
"Theology is never any help it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything." »Robert A. Heinlein
|
|
"I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to." »Harry S Truman
|
|
"A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate." »La Rochefoucauld
|
|
"Discourage litigation. persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough." »Abraham Lincoln
|
|
"Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within there lies the power to persuade, there the life,--there, if one must speak out, the real man." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
|
|
"To be a housewife is ... a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed." »Phyllis Mcginley
|
|
"The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist." »William James
|
|
"A very large amount of human suffering and frustration is caused by the fact that many men and women are not content to be the sort of beings that God has made them, but try to persuade themselves that they are really beings of some different kind." »Eric Mascall
|
|
"No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal." »Marilyn Ferguson
|
|
"Between a stupid fascist and an intelligent fascist, prefer the intelligent one, because there is always a chance to persuade the clever one about the mistakes of his actions! There is no such a chance for stupid and ignorant fascist!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
|
|
"When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change." »Thich Nhat Hanh
|
| Like Quotes.net? Why won't you tell a friend about us? |
[