Definition of Persuasive

Persuasive

Tending to persuade; having the power of persuading; as, persuasive eloquence.

That which persuades; an inducement; an incitement; an exhortation.

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Persuasive Quotations

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
John F. Kennedy

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
Lao Tzu

I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.
David Ogilvy

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

A drunk driver is very dangerous. So is a drunk backseat driver if he's persuasive.
Demetri Martin

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
John Kenneth Galbraith

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

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.
Benjamin F. Wade

Properly practiced creativity must result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.
William Bernbach

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
Friedrich Schiller

Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.
Christopher Hitchens

Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.
Herman Kahn

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.
Clifford Geertz

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.
Dennis Prager

Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
Ted Olson

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

The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.
Charles Rosen

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

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Persuasive Translations

persuasive in Latin is eloquens
persuasive in Spanish is persuasivo

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