When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Once I could persuade these guys that all I wanted to hear from them was what they did - Tell me what you do - once you can persuade someone that this is all you're after, you can't shut them up because we're all fascinated by what we do.

- Roger Angell

You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time.

- Riccardo Muti

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 favorable hearers.

- Richard Hooker

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

- Nelson Mandela

You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it.

- Mary Wesley

I don't persuade to suicide.

- Jack Kevorkian

I don't know that you're ever going to persuade New Zealanders that they're not going to own their own homes and I'm not going to try.

- Helen Clark

I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate.

- Helen Thomas

When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.

- Bill James

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.

- Dean Inge

Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence.

- Chauncey Wright

The wonderful thing about God is he knows what we need to persuade us.

- Charles R. Swindoll

Good argument is intended to persuade another.

- Barry Eisler