“Put me in a room with 50 people and I guarantee you 48 them are going to walk out saying ‘Ojeda’s my guy.’…And if they’re Republicans I can still get ’em.””— Richard Ojeda, theguardian.com
“When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out. Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.”— Ruth Bader Ginsburg, amazon.com
“I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have sense enough to do without my persuading them…that's all the powers of the President amount to.”— Harry S Truman, amazon.com
“My definition of a leader in a free country is a man who can persuade people to do what they don’t want to do, or do what they’re too lazy to do, and like it.”— Harry S Truman, amazon.com
“When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.”— Abraham Lincoln, abrahamlincolnonline.org
“There are other ways to force people to do what you want.”— Beth Szymkowski, Violet Adams, Liza Koshy, imdb.com
“Just as the liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent.”— George Bernard Shaw, en.wikiquote.org
“The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.”— Theodore Roosevelt, books.google.com
“A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.”— Alfred Nobel, en.wikiquote.org
“I put a spell on people so they don't know they're working out... An enchanting spell, where they just don't think about it, or over think it, and then at the end they go, 'Wow, I feel good.'”— Richard Simmons, abcnews.go.com
“All men are almost led to believe not of proof, but by attraction. This way is base, ignoble, and irrelevant; every one therefore disavows it. Each one professes to believe and even to love nothing but what he knows to be worthy of belief and love.”— Blaise Pascal, amazon.com
“People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.”— Blaise Pascal, amazon.com
“If diplomacy is the art of persuading others to act as we would wish, effective foreign policy requires that we comprehend why others act as they do.”— Madeleine Albright, goodreads.com
“Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, amazon.com
“He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.”— John Ruskin, amazon.com