Persuasion Artist

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Here are some inspiring and insightful quotes about persuasion I have found online.  These quotes are from many different types of persuasion artists, from many different time periods, from many different cultures.  Consisting of persuasion artists from all over the world and from many different time periods including philosophers, sales people, hypnotists, marketers, and U.S. presidents.

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

“The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.”
 -Terry Pratchett

“Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.”
 -William Bernbach

“Persuasion is often more effectual than force.”
 -Aesop

“Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.”
 Thomas Carlyle

“All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction”
 -Marya Mannes

“To listen well, is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well, and is as essential to all true conversation”
 -Chinese Proverb

“I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.”
-Themistocles

“In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.”
-Aristotle
 
“If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.”
 -Benjamin Franklin
 
“Whatever you can get a person to imagine they will perceive as their own thought, and therefore not resist it”
-Ross Jeffries

“The limits of my language are the limits of my world.”
-unknown

 “Brains aren’t designed to get result; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don’t, then someone else will.”
-Richard Bandler

“People will teach you how to sell them if you’ll pay attention to the messages they send you.” -Source Unknown

“The tongue can paint what the eye can’t see.”
 -Chinese Proverb

” Those that will not hear must be made to feel.”
 -German proverb
 
“If you’re not in control of yourself, how can you be in control of others?”
-Mark Cunningham

“That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.”
 -Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
“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.”
 -Thomas Carlyle

If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
 Abraham Lincoln

“People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found out by others.”
 Blaise Pascal

“When a heart is on fire, sparks always fly out of the mouth.”
 -Proverb

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