Convince Quotes

• It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • People
  • Hard
  • Killing

• One of the adversary's sharpest tools is to convince us that we are no longer worthy to pray. No matter who you are or what you may have done, you can always pray.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Pray
  • Tools
  • Convince

• Humans are really interesting. We're so clever, what we do with our brain. How we manage to con ourselves into thinking all sorts of things is really fascinating. By the same token, if we could just convince ourselves of things that would gather us together and powerfully turn things around for the good, that would be awesome. It's doubtful because we're such a fear-based species.

  

  Thandie Newton
  • Thinking
  • Interesting
  • Manage

• Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Soul
  • Night
  • Convince

• It can be very expensive to try to convince the markets you are right.

  

  Ed Seykota
  • Trying
  • Convince
  • Expensive

• There is nothing like the whites of someone’s eyes to convince you how very true what you believe is, how very much you must act on it.

  

  Jennine Capó Crucet
  • Believe
  • Act
  • Convince

• At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Reason
  • Enough
  • Lying

• You may tell me that my hand and foot are only imaginary symbols of my existence. I could believe you, but you never, never can convince me that the I is not an eternal reality, and that the spiritual is not the true and real part of me.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Believe
  • Hand
  • Existence

• Divinity of art, it's such a mystery. How to convince people that no matter how much money you can spend on education and art education especially, that it implants, it directs a young person for the rest of their lives, and always in the most humane and positive and dignified manner.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • People
  • Art
  • Mystery

• For me, a place unvisited is like an unrequited love. A dull ache that- try as you might to think it away, to convince yourself that she really wasn't the right country for you- just won't leave you in peace.

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Love
  • Peace
  • Convince

• First of all, convince yourself that you are the best because the rest of your life is going to go proving this to others.

  

  Wasim Akram
  • Life
  • Prove
  • Convince

• Convince yourself that everything is alright. 'Cos it already is.

  

  Pete Yorn
  • Convince
  • Alright
  • Already

• Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote for McCain.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Convince

• Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Energy
  • Achieve
  • Human being

• We haven’t heard from you yet, Frau Vetter,” said the commandant. “Oh yes … yes … I was supposed to call you, that number …” I fumbled in my bag. “I wonder if I still have it …” Did I really imagine that I could convince him I had misplaced his number the way I had “lost” my Nazi Red Cross pin? “The number is on your desk,” he said with a smile. “Ah. Yes. In my office.” “No. Not that desk. The antique desk with the brass fittings and feet like the claws of a lion, the desk you have in your apartment.” In my mind’s ear, I heard the fiend Goebbels laughing.

  

  Edith Hahn Beer
  • Wonder
  • Imagine
  • Laughing

• There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Obvious
  • Convince
  • Emptiness

• Leaders don't convince people to follow them. Leaders walk forward alone and those who want to go down their path decide to follow.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • People
  • Path
  • Leader

• One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. Now to have that come true - I've actually gone on stage depressed and that's worked its magic on me, 'cause if I can convince you that I'm alright, then maybe I can convince me.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Magic
  • Convince

• Convince yourself that everything is alright. Cause it already is.

  

  Pete Yorn
  • Causes
  • Convince
  • Alright

• I have a friend. He keeps trying to convince me he's a compulsive liar, but I don't believe him.

  

  Ben Bailey
  • Believe
  • Friend
  • Liar

• I've been astonished how often, when I convince a writer to tell a story more straightforwardly and to tell it more simply and directly, it turns out that this author is great and the story is wonderful.

  

  Alice Mattison
  • Stories
  • Wonderful
  • Turns

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