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Quotes about persuasion
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response. (Alcott Amos Bronson)
To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them. (Alcott Amos Bronson)
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. (Alcott Amos Bronson)
Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy. (Alcott Amos Bronson)
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world. (Alcott Amos Bronson)
If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself. (Alcott Amos Bronson)
He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves. (Alcott Amos Bronson)
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable. (Alcott Amos Bronson)
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense. (Alcott Amos Bronson)
Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his opinion in the course of a year no matter how absurd that opinion might be. We see every day in politics, in business, in social life, large masses of people brought to embrace the most revolutionary ideas, sometimes within a few days. It is all a question of getting hold of them in the right way and working on their weak points. (Alcott Amos Bronson)
It is nobler to convert souls, than to conquer kingdoms. (Alcott Amos Bronson)
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. (Alcott Amos Bronson)
That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often. (Alcott Amos Bronson)
For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction. (Alcott Amos Bronson)
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. (Alcott Amos Bronson)
Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason. (Alcott Amos Bronson)
Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced; the majority allow themselves to be persuaded. (Alcott Amos Bronson)
People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them. (Alcott Amos Bronson)
To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone. (Alcott Amos Bronson)
Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it. (Alcott Amos Bronson)
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased. (Alcott Amos Bronson)
The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders. (Alcott Amos Bronson)
The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing. (Alcott Amos Bronson)
Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them? (Alcott Amos Bronson)
As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors. (Alcott Amos Bronson)
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