Top Persuaded Quotes
Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
John Kenneth Galbraith
I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction.
William Banting
The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency.
Bobby R. Inman
There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party.
Pete du Pont
Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group.
Linda McCartney
John Kenneth Galbraith 
Bobby R. Inman 
Leland Stanford 
Robert Southey 
Robert Klein 
Laurence Sterne 
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Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.
Hubert H. Humphrey 
52% of people like this quote
If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I employ this power in the destruction of liberty and the diminution of commerce, let me awaken them from their delusion.
Robert Walpole
51% of people like this quote
People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
Blaise Pascal
50% of people like this quote
I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive.
Joseph Lancaster
50% of people like this quote
When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.
Patrick White
49% of people like this quote
Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.
Jan Morris
48% of people like this quote
Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
James Russell Lowell
48% of people like this quote
First, President Reagan was not enthusiastic. But I built up a relationship with him in other areas and then persuaded him that this was important to us and to me, and that we had to at least be in the process of looking at this seriously.
Brian Mulroney
47% of people like this quote
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
46% of people like this quote
I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
Buffalo Bill
45% of people like this quote
Popular Persuaded Authors
Blaise PascalDwight D. EisenhowerJames Russell LowellJohn Kenneth GalbraithBuffalo BillHubert H. HumphreyLaurence SterneDavid BowieLeland StanfordBrian MulroneyRobert WalpoleLinda McCartney
Joseph LancasterPete du PontJames L. BuckleyYannick NoahRobert SoutheyWilliam BantingLouis PasteurPatrick WhiteRobert KleinVernon L. SmithBobby R. InmanJan Morris
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