quotes about Convince
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You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.
-- Al-Ghazali -
Did not manage to convince the French people that we were going in the right direction.
-- Alain JuppeSource : "French prime minister concedes". www.cnn.com. June 1, 1997.
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Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too.
-- Anna Julia Cooper -
If you're happy inside you don't have to convince everyone else.
-- Anna Maxted -
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We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.
-- Bill W. -
How do you convince someone to change, to stop being afraid of himself? How do you convince yourself not to be so scared all the time?
-- Charles Yu -
A brain you can convince, a simpleton you have to persuade.
-- Curt Goetz -
Art starts alone - and convinces society later.
-- Douglas Davis -
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You can't convince anyone of anything. You can only give them the right information, so that they convince themselves.
-- Eben Pagan -
It can be very expensive to try to convince the markets you are right
-- Ed SeykotaSource : "Trend Following: Learn to Make Millions in Up or Down Markets". Book by Michael Covel, 2009.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time.
-- Evita Peron -
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The lavish presentation appeals to me, and I've got to convince the others.
-- Freddie Mercury -
Everybody saying you can't do this, you can't do that. I don't know why. Guess if you listen to it, you can convince yourself of it.
-- Fuzzy Zoeller -
A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.
-- George Mason -
You've got to get as literal as you can get to convince people sometimes that you can do something.
-- Gillian Jacobs -
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It’s mostly just you have to convince yourself that there’s nothing else in the room but John Lennon and suddenly things start John Lennon-ing!
-- Grant Morrison -
Nothing can convince me that people are at one with their work unless they're joyous about it.
-- Indira Gandhi -
Believe in yourself. And stop trying to convince others
-- James de la Vega -
There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it's the right thing to do, the altruistic thing to do. It's far easier than telling ourselves the truth.
-- Jodi Picoult -
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I have to convince myself I know what I'm doing.
-- Joe Namath -
Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.
-- John Henry Patterson -
People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.
-- John Steinbeck -
Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate.
-- Jonathan AlterSource : Jonathan Alter (2010). “The Promise: President Obama, Year One”, p.140, Simon and Schuster
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We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own
-- Joseph Joubert -
Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince.
-- Josh Billings -
If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.
-- Leon Trotsky -
If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
-- Lord Chesterfield -
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What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.
-- Lucian FreudSource : National Gallery (Great Britain), Lucian Freud (1987). “The artist's eye: Lucian Freud : an exhibition of National Gallery Paintings selected by the artist 17 June - 16 August 1987”
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How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him.
-- Malcolm LowrySource : Malcolm Lowry (2012). “Under the Volcano: A Novel”, p.105, Open Road Media
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I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
-- Manuel Puig -
If they have to put the word 'natural' on a box to convince you, it probably isn't.
-- Michele Simon -
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It's hard to convince a winner that he's losing.
-- Mike Caro -
Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.
-- Paul Claudel -
preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching.
-- Paul the Apostle -
And there are people that will stand in your corner and convince you to stand up for another round no matter what.
-- Pete Wentz -
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Being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on.
-- Philip Roth -
I cannot tell her I have been moping over a broken heart when I have worked so hard to convince her I have no heart at all.
-- R.L. LaFevers -
You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.
-- Rand BeersSource : "Blast from my past: 'What next?' Rolling Stone". Interview with Amanda Griscom, thomaspmbarnett.squarespace.com. July 8-22, 2004.
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Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion.
-- Richard Bach -
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How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?
-- Richard DonnerSource : Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. March 1, 2001.
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Lately Ive been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.
-- Rudy Rucker -
I have to convince myself that this is not a pointless life, even the body is telling me so.
-- Sara Gruen -
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
-- Simone de Beauvoir -
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No, you won her over. Gave up everything for her. Maybe that's the only way to convince her you love her.
-- Suzanne Collins -
To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.
-- Todd GitlinSource : "How to be radical?". The OpenDemocracy Interview, www.opendemocracy.net. April 5, 2011.
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I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.
-- Vivien Leigh -
he was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty.
-- Walter Dean Myers -
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I'm on a show called Wizards of Wavery Place, and I like it, but I'm unable to convince my Tivo that I wouldn't also like iCarly.
-- Andy Kindler -
The accents are really really funny. I think I could convince somebody I was from New Zealand.
-- Carter JenkinsSource : Source: www.seventeen.com
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Everybody can doubt, and they are free to doubt, and I don't want to convince anyone.
-- Csanad SzegediSource : Source: www.salon.com
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Manipulating [is] just the way to proceed, to convince that what you're doing is important. Is nothing more than that. Everyone is manipulating.
-- Herve FalcianiSource : Source: www.cbsnews.com
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I'm definitely not in a band to convince anyone I can sing.
-- Joe CaseySource : Source: thequietus.com
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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.
-- Lawrence FaggSource : Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.16, Andrews McMeel Publishing
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The only person you have to convince is yourself.
-- Mido Hamada -
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.
-- Ramesh Srinivasan -
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Convince yourself that everything is alright. Cause it already is.
-- Pete Yorn