If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. Benjamin Franklin
If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time – a tremendous whack. Winston Churchill.
Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion. Terence.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. Aristotle.
One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears – by listening to them. Dean Rusk
Persuasion is often more effectual than force. Aesop
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity. Zig Ziglar
He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers. Richard Hooker
It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles. Muriel Spark