Quotes of Convince - somelinesforyou

“ Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject. ”

- John H. Patterson

“ We convince by our presence. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ If you look upon the rule in Titus it is a rule to me. If you convince me that it is no rule I shall yield. ”

- Anne Hutchinson

“ Do whatever you can to convince him to do the movie. ”

- Tobey Maguire

“ It's going to take a certain man for me to ever get involved with, because he'll have to realize I don't have two children, I have three. Tommy is always going to always be a part of my life. ”

- Pamela Anderson

“ As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right. ”

- Catharine Esther Beecher

“ Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith, reason over might. To blow up his children would only prove him right. ”

- Gordon Sumner

“ Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory yields a lot, but it hardly brings us any closer to the secret of the Old One. In any case I am convinced that He doesn't play dice. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open. ”

- Clive Bell

“ 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. ”

- Jonathan Swift

“ The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers. ”

- Barbara Boxer

“ If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you. ”

- Irving Layton

“ The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you. ”

- Casey Stengel

“ There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it. ”

- Alexander Herzen

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

- Junius

“ Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong. ”

- Robert. L. Ehrlich

“ Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ To explain responsibility to advertising men is like trying to convince an eight-year-old that sexual intercourse is more fun than a chocolate ice cream cone. ”

- Howard Luck Gossage

“ It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry. ”

- Edward W. Howe

“ The continued utterance of a lie does not make it true, but it does convince many that it is, particularly if you can squelch most efforts to expose the lie. ”

- Shapley R. Hunter

“ On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy. ”

- Ang Lee

“ It took a long time for me to convince my staff people to leave me unscheduled from 2:00 to 4:00 everyday. And I need to do that as mayor. I need to schedule accessibility time. ”

- Dick Murphy

“ I will try my best to convince my colleagues that we must have a comprehensive policy towards those who are fighting the regime. ”

- Jalal Talabani

“ If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them. ”

- Harvey Mackay

“ A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends. ”

- George Washington

“ If you cannot convince them, confuse them. ”

- Harry S.Truman

“ 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. ”

- Plato

“ A diplomat is a man who can convince his wife she'd look stout in a fur coat. ”

- Unknown
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