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

Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.
William Laud

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

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.
Terence

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.
Huston Smith

I am dying, but with a strong hope and persuasion that my country will gain her independence.
David Wooster

I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.
Yitzhak Shamir

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.
Pete Seeger

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

I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind.
George W. Bush

I used all diligence to arrive at London and therefore I now gave my crew a certificate under my hand, of my free and willing return, without persuasion or force by any one or more of them.
Henry Hudson

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

In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.
Tony Campolo

Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends.
Edward Levi

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

Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.
Richard Mentor Johnson

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
Aesop

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
Henry David Thoreau

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.
Everett Dirksen

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
Thomas B. Macaulay