Too much zeal offends where indirection works.
I loved Thirteen and I loved Pretty Persuasion, and was always just so blown away by her [Rachel Evan Wood]. It was nice, and sadly, it is so rare.
Leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.
If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk. When I yielded, I thought it was to duty; but no duty could be called in aid here. In marrying a man indifferent to me, all risk would have been incurred and all duty violated.
Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.
Because, Cat, it’s the feminine persuasion that’s always the deadliest.
Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.
From him [Death] alone of all the powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.
The Spirit never makes men the instruments of converting others until they feel that they cannot do it themselves; that their skill in argument, in persuasion, in management, avails nothing.
Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance. . . . Reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged. . . . Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them.
I only have disdain for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He raised taxes and has increased regulations. What else is new? He's a bully who wants to micro-manage people's lives by mandate, not persuasion.
His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.
Advertising is the art of persuasion.
With plants, persuasion is better than force.
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.
Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.
If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.
Let us reject the spirit of making proselytes to particular creeds by any other means than persuasion.