| Dwight D. Eisenhower |  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 |
| extensive | That included an extensive media campaign to try to persuade the public and government of the shortcomings of plain packaging. |
| Francois de La Rochefoucauld | The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
| Francois de La Rochefoucauld | We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
| Francois de La Rochefoucauld | We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
| H. Jackson Brown, Jr. | When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. |
| Helen Thomas | 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 |
| Henri B. Stendhal | The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
Henri B. Stendhal |
| Ian Anderson | Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.
Ian Anderson |
| Ieyasu Tokugawa | Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.
Ieyasu Tokugawa |
| Jack Kevorkian | I don't persuade to suicide.
Jack Kevorkian |
| James Wolfensohn | But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.
James Wolfensohn |
| Jim Wallis | When evangelical leaders can persuade the president to be concerned about what's happening in Sudan, or sex trafficking around the world, or HIV-AIDS, that's a very good thing. I am completely supportive of that.
Jim Wallis |
| John Ciardi | Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
John Ciardi |
| John Cleese | If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.
John Cleese |
| John H. Johnson | It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.
John H. Johnson |
| John Hutton | We must seek to persuade member states and institutions that better regulation in Europe does not mean cutting health and safety in the workplace, nor does it mean dismantling social standards.
John Hutton |
| Joseph Conrad | He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
Joseph Conrad |
| L. Neil Smith | The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.
L. Neil Smith |
| Leo Szilard | A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.
Leo Szilard |
