Mark Twain Quotes

I consider myself a persuasive person. With the ability to persuade comes a certain level of power.

I've always been very good at convincing people. For instance, if I arrive in an airport and I'm in economy, I can always convince the guy to put me in first class.

When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

It is one thing to persuade, another to command …

If you are strong, and if you have a strong logic, you can convince people by your ideas. Torture means your logic is very weak, so you need power to impose on others.

There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns.

Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working.

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

Because an appeal makes logical sense is no guarantee that it will work.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

I think it was when I realised I could talk anybody into doing just about anything I wanted them to.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time.

Flattery was one of Kissinger's principal tools in winning over Nixon, and a tool he employed shamelessly.

Telling a man to go to hell and making him go are two different propositions.

Once a person insists on how you are to think he immediately begins to insist on how you are to behave.

If you tell people something often enough, they will believe it.

Power comes through public persuasion.

People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they'll join your side.

There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.

I consider myself to be quite persuasive when I want.

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.