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Self-doubt is a persuasive mistress; careful not to shag her or you'll never get your balls back. - Simon Hunt
— Dannika Dark
Pour yourself a cockytale - a delicious blend of persuasive happy facts and/or marvelous memories - prepared just for you.
— Karen Salmansohn
The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.
— Thornton Wilder
But who ever heeds the voice of reason when love whispers, softly persuasive, in the other ear?
— Michael Cox
I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive, then I know I'm truly persuasive.
— Giancarlo Esposito
With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.
— Theophile Gautier
If you can't be persuasive to get people to believe your crazy idea, you can just go ahead and build it.
— Jim McKelvey
People think kindness is a soft, weak, submissive influence when in reality it is the most potent, persuasive force in existence.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Children learn through gentle direction and persuasive teaching.
— Thomas S. Monson
The Christian truth is attractive and persuasive because it responds to humanity's deepest needs.
— Pope Francis
You are never persuasive when you're abrasive.
— Rick Warren
The blinding ability of sin is so powerful and persuasive that you and I literally need daily intervention.
— Paul David Tripp
Encouragements are persuasive words.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Our task is not one of producing persuasive propaganda; Christianity shows its greatness when it is hated by the world.
— Ignatius Of Antioch
Find the simple story in the product, and present it in an articulate and intelligent, persuasive way.
— William Bernbach
Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
There is no need for a long, persuasive introduction about self-confidence. If you are not a confident person, you already know it.
— Stephen Richards
Love is like that: insistent, sure, persuasive. It silences easily all whispers of misgiving.
— Kate Morton
There is no evidence against genetic determinism more persuasive than the children of the rich.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It is not a persuasive argument that an evil should continue because it has existed in the past.
— William H. Hastie
To be persuasive, We must be believable,
To be believable, We must be credible,
To be credible, We must be truthful. — Edward R. Murrow
To be believable, We must be credible,
To be credible, We must be truthful. — Edward R. Murrow
Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.
— Dennis Prager
Persuasive communication involves enthusiasm, animation, audience participation, authenticity and spontaneity.
— John C. Maxwell
Speaking passionately from the very center of who you are is compelling, forceful, persuasive: that's what leadership sounds like.
— Charlotte Beers
Praying is a persuasive act.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We like to imagine that in history, truth will prevail through sheer persuasive power. Sadly, this is not the case. Truth needs champions ...
— Llewellyn Rockwell
Word of mouth is more effective than traditional advertising for two key reasons. First, it's more persuasive.
— Jonah Berger
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
— Friedrich Schiller
Every artist has his or her struggle to work out in their work. The more powerful the struggle, the more persuasive the art.
— Philip Schultz
A drunk driver is very dangerous. So is a drunk backseat driver if he's persuasive.
— Demetri Martin
A linear projection into the future of any science or technology is like a form of propaganda &emdash; often persuasive, almost always wrong.
— Pamela McCorduck
It is never persuasive to argue that you are not the kind of person who does what you are actually doing.
— Lionel Shriver
Speaking with passion born of your own authentic experience and belief is always persuasive.
— Charlotte Beers
You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The most persuasive gospel tract is the exemplary life of a faithful Latter-day Saint.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
I consider myself a persuasive person. With the ability to persuade comes a certain level of power.
— Ertharin Cousin
The carrot and the stick are prevasive and persuasive motivators. But if you treat people like donkeys, they will perform like donkeys.
— John Whitmore
In general, talking about human rights tends to be very persuasive for people who care about human rights.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
Without a life example that speaks louder than words, even the most persuasive leader will fail.
— John Dickson
For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make man agree to his own destruction.
— Janet Frame
Persuasive word is a tree of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Unseen influences are the most persuasive.
— Marty Rubin
The goal is not to make something factually impeccable, but seamlessly persuasive.
— John Szarkowski
Good ideas ought not to be dressed up in bad prose.
— Barbara Minto
My son smiled. "You taught me well, Father."
"What did I teach you?"
"That a spear-point in a prisoner's liver is a very persuasive thing. — Bernard Cornwell
"What did I teach you?"
"That a spear-point in a prisoner's liver is a very persuasive thing. — Bernard Cornwell
We can be dramatic, even theatrical; we can be persuasive; but the message we are telling must be true.
— Edwin Land
Beauty has a persuasive power all its own.
— Janette Rallison
The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.
— Clifford Geertz
Inner calm is critical to persuasive acting.
— Dan Brown
Good leadership is pervasive, persuasive, and persistent. Bad leadership is poisoned with pedanticism, posturing, self-importance.
— Marcia Whicker
An argument can be made - a rigorous, persuasive argument - that every good new thing results from a teeming complexity.
— Joshua Wolf Shenk
For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.
— Jeff Flake
Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.
— Louisa May Alcott
But the paranormal is persuasive; why else does religion persist?
— David Mitchell
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
I haven't even really tried to win you over, Roza. When I want to, I can be very persuasive.
— Richelle Mead
Never again will I underestimate the persuasive power of a woman with legal training and big tits.
— Dave Barry
People will buy snake oil from anybody who seems to be selling it in a persuasive way.
— Frederick Buechner
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
— John Kenneth Galbraith