“Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.”
Mark Twain
“I think we can work together with the port on this. Let's use community persuasion to help make this work.”
John Greenwood
“There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory”
“A soft Tongue may strike hard.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.”
Aristotle
“Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.”
Zig Ziglar