The tongue can paint what the eye cant see. – Chinese Proverb
He that winna be ruled by the rudder maun be ruled by the rock. – Scottish Proverb
More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar. – Proverb
Those that will not hear must be made to feel. – Proverb
That which proves too much, proves nothing! – Proverb
When a heart is on fire, sparks always fly out of the mouth. – Proverb
If you cant get people to listen to you any other way, tell them its confidential. – Proverb
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response. – Amos Bronson Alcott
To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them. – Thomas Aquinas
Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life — there, if one must speak out, the real man. – Marcus Aurelius
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 would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself. – Lord Chesterfield
He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves. – Lord Chesterfield
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is nobler to convert souls, than to conquer kingdoms. – Louis Debonnaire
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone. – Dwight D Eisenhower
That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction. – Janet Frame
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. – Benjamin Franklin
Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason. – Benjamin Franklin
