Convince Quotes

If I have a mission in life, it is to convince people that everyone is morally motivated - everyone except for psychopaths.

If I believe that abortion is wrong, and I want to convince you that it's wrong, there's no reason I should recount to you my personal narrative of how I came to believe this.

I'm not better than anyone, and I'm not trying to convince people to live by my standards of what's right. I'm trying to convince them to live by their own.

I don't think that I am hopeful because I have some data that you don't, that I am going to share with you and going to convince you on that basis.

I don't have any training in dance. I can convince an audience that I know how to dance because I'm a convincing actor.

We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own

It's hard to convince people when you haven't done anything that the things you're working on are worthy of spending their time and money on: like, "Oh man, I write really great songs, I promise!"

After a brief period in which I had let many a Southern Californian convince me that it was all 'in my mind,' I am once again officially allergic to dogs.

There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

If you want to write a book that's very successful and famous, then it's hard. If you just want to get published, all you have to do is convince an editor that your idea will make them money.

If you don't stop apologizing, you're going to convince me you've done something wrong.

If I can convince people that their idea is great, and know inside that their idea was actually a little my idea, then I feel okay. I don't feel too douchey.

A man can convince anyone hes someone else but never himself.

Politics and acting are very closely tied. The job is to convince.

We must convince and empower people to adopt the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as their guiding principle.

If there were no nobodies, The somebodies would not have anybody, To convince that they were somebody, Except some other somebody, Who would not be convinced anyway.

When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of his life. Sidney had gone ahead of every other African American actor.

During that time, I began writing and designing the propaganda that we distributed to the students who we were trying to convince to join us.

I wanted to see myself as something different, and I wanted to convince people that I was capable of something other than what they would expect from me.

It's easy to convince men to love you, Puck. All you have to do is be a mountain they have to climb or a poem they don't understand.

How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him.

You may not be able to convince everyone around you that you're doing the right thing, but you don't have to subject yourself to endless second-guessing from others, either.

As for people who are politically backward, Communists should not slight or despise them, but should befriend them, unite with them, convince them and encourage them to go forward.

The old saw says - 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Experience knows better; experience says, If you want to convince do it yourself.

I've been talking to Martina [Hingis] about playing for a couple of years. Maybe I can convince her to play some doubles.

Everybody says, TV is great, the writer has so much power. I'm still trying to convince myself that's true. When do the writers ever have power? Ever? They don't. Even in the book industry.

Also, when on a campaign to convince a stranger that you aren't a few fries short of a Happy Meal, throwing around phrases like "tangentially Swedish" is not the best way to go.

A God who is trying to convince people that He is a God is not a God! He is just a clown disguised as a God! No supreme power can be in need of convincing men!

After a lifetime of engaging in long, passionate discussions I have come to the conclusion that it is a waste of time trying to convince anyone of anything.

We all have three characters: the one we really have, the one we try to convince the world we have, and the one we think we have.

Expensive, well-executed, and familiar ads convince the investors, as nothing in the black and white tables of assets and debits can, that the company is important and prosperous.

Mainstream media would convince you that there's commercial culture and that's all - but this other music is still here.

I think it's hard to convince an audience of some sort of chemistry if you really don't get along.

The only person you have to convince is yourself.

So, I sit at the hotel at night and I think of something that's funny. Or, If the pen is too far away, I have to convince myself that what I thought of wasn't funny.

I've... learned that it's a hell of a lot easier to just build something than to try to convince somebody who doesn't believe it's possible.

If you can just convince the dope people that the gun people are right and the gun people that the dope people are right, we could actually live in a lot more freedom.

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

You don't have to convince Muslims of God's existence or importance.

A person who is not convinced, enthusiastic, certain and in love, will convince nobody.

I was trying to find a reason for having had to escape from the place that was my home. To convince myself of my choices, I had to make it a place that everyone should want to escape from.

I think the governments need to encourage internet companies and convince them that they can be extremely profitable without necessarily spiraling out of control. Without becoming monopolist.

In a reality, what we should be doing is having quiet diplomacy with the Russians to convince them that it's in their self-interest to have a more stable Middle East because trade enriches us all.

Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.

I know if you talk faster and use more ten-dollar words than everyone around you, you convince half of them that they should shut up because you know what you're talking about.

If you fell head first into a pigsty, you'd try to convince everybody you did it on purpose.

Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.

The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old, it is easier still.

I always try to convince people that there has to be a lot of material about the subject matter, so they created a couple of pieces. One is about doomsday prophecies.

I tend toward the pessimistic end of the spectrum, and unfortunately there's little in human history to convince me that pessimism is unwarranted.