Convince Quotes

If they had connived a scheme, and Christ had not been raised from the dead, where would have been the hardest place on the face of the earth to convince anyone? In Jerusalem.

I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.

The photographer’s vision convinces us to the degree that the photographer hides his hand.

Now go back and meet all those people who you think know everything. Convince yourself that they're right, because we all know everything, it's merely a question of believing.

It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof

I am a proud Montrealer. Jobs will take me where they take me, but nothing will ever be able to convince me to leave my home.

It's hard to convince a winner that he's losing.

I hope that in the days to come, I'll be able to convince my colleagues that I should be one of the candidates that Conservative party members can choose from.

I always think a great speaker convinces us not by force of reasoning, but because he is visibly enjoying the beliefs he wants us to accept.

He can talk to himself about his dreams, hopes and aspirations. He can convince himself that there is a place for him and an important work for him to do.

The fundamental challenge of achieving anything you wish is first to convince yourself to do it. Once you are totally convinced of its value, you'll find a way to get it done.

It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.

Whenever you have to come to my house and convince me to leave my home and play football, deep down in my heart I really don't want to play, but I really don't want to let you down.

Nothing can convince me that people are at one with their work unless they're joyous about it.

I think it is going to be very difficult for any church that still calls itself a church, never to try and convince someone that their religion is the best one.

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

Trying to convince myself I've found one. Making the mistake I never learned from.

Let's face it, Fox News, you'll miss me when I'm gone. It'll be harder to convince the public that Hillary Clinton was born in Kenya.

The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture.

You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that you're actually not that tired.

The daily coverage of the Vietnamese battlefield helped convince the American public that the carnage was not worth the candle.

I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral.

I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.

When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours;.

When people laugh at your institutions and convince you that you have to adopt theirs - adopt their dress, adopt their taste in food - you are a prisoner to those people.

The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

Confessions are like tattoos in that 1) You convince yourself that the immediate pain of going through the process means it won't bother you later on; 2) They are permanent.

People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.

The easiest way to convince my kids that they don't really need something is to get it for them.

Before you meet the love of your life, there's usually one guy you date that you try to convince yourself is him. Let me save you some time: He's not.

As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that the most successful architectures are the ones you can actually convince someone to implement.

I have to convince myself I know what I'm doing.

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

When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.

[Con] men have long known . . . that their job is not to convince skeptics but to enable the gullible to continue to believe what they want to believe.

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

O God, for as much as without Thee We are not enabled to doubt Thee, Help us all by Thy grace To convince the whole race It knows nothing whatever about Thee.

I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me to the contrary.

How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?

It is almost impossible to convince people who are under the influence of ideological bigotry that whose whom they regard as belonging to the enemy species are human.

It is not important to convince people; they should convince themselves, they should look with their own eyes.

You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.

She was the first woman in my life to convince me to fall in love with her.

Love is joy. Don't convince yourself that suffering is a part of it.

A girl should never disguise the fact that she's a girl. It's a lot easier to convince a man that you're a fascinating female if you look the part.

To control and enslave the minds of men, all one must do is convince them that a secret exists, and that he is privy to information regarding that secret; hence the power of priests and psychics.

I rarely think the market is right. I believe non dividend stocks aren't much more than baseball cards. They are worth what you can convince someone to pay for it.