A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.

- Aristotle

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.

- Daniel J. Boorstin

The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.

- David Ogilvy

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

- Edward R. Murrow

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

- Friedrich Schiller

The most persuasive gospel tract is the exemplary life of a faithful Latter-day Saint.

- Gordon B. Hinckley

I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive, then I know I'm truly persuasive.

- Giancarlo Esposito

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

- Janet Frame

For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.

- Jeff Flake

I can be pretty persuasive if I believe in something strongly enough.

- Rashida Jones