Being Convinced Quotes

#1. Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#2. Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.

Phil Crosby

#3. A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot.

John McCarthy

#4. The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes.

Atom Egoyan

#5. Living in the box means being convinced that other people and our circumstances are responsible for our feelings and our helplessness to overcome them.

C. Terry Warner

#6. Never argue with a man whose job depends on not being convinced.

H.L. Mencken

#7. The secret of gospel change is being convinced that Jesus is the good life and the fountain of joy. Any alternative we might choose would be the letdown.

Tim Chester

#8. That's because success convinces us that we are doing things the right way. There is nothing quite as effective, when it comes to shutting down alternative viewpoints, as being convinced you are right.

Ed Catmull

#9. You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you.

Karl Popper

#10. That adult trait of being convinced of anything by an assumption of silent superiority

William Faulkner

#11. Worry springs from not being convinced of a sovereign God's absolute love for you. Worry disappears when you realize that God loves you unfailingly and will let nothing interrupt His plans for your good.

J.D. Greear

#12. At the end Nora swayed in my arms to something slow and very old, after being convinced that, yes, this is how we slow-dance behind Punk lines, and no, I'm not telling you that just so I can hold you.

Lia Habel

#13. I know that I was hiking at a very young age because I remember being convinced that it was the trees that were talking.

Jennifer Pharr Davis

#14. The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.

William Hazlitt

#15. In the depths of my heart I can't help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.

Sigmund Freud

#16. we are all born/ so beautiful/ the greatest tragedy is/ being convinced we are not

Rupi Kaur

#17. Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it.

Jacob M. Appel

#18. LEXI: I'd settled for this awful existence because I'd convinced myself it was better than being alone.

...But it's not.

T.S. Joyce

#19. It's not acting like an ass that bothers me, it's that I act like an ass while being completely convinced that I'm suave and sexy that freaks me out.

Tim Hall

#20. A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must ... be undaunted when the going gets tough.

Ronald Reagan

#21. Being understanding is a curse because even if they hurt you,they are convinced "you will understand

Himmilicious

#22. Nobody is immune to a nationwide evil unless he is unshakably convinced of the danger of his own character being tainted by the same evil.

C. G. Jung

#23. I am convinced that any feeling of exaltation because we have people under us should be conquered, for I am sure that if we enjoy being over people, there will be something in our manner which will make them dislike being under us.

Mary Parker Follett

#24. Well, I haven't convinced anyone to take a bite out of an apple lately, so I think we're all pretty safe for the time being.

J.M. Darhower

#25. Then she waited, with parted lips and a saucy challenge in her eyes, to see how her presence
the drama of being her
was registering. In the way of such chicks, she seemed convinced of the originality of her provocation.

Jonathan Franzen

#26. I was convinced that luck was a matter of knowing what one wanted and then being willing to work to make the wish come true.

Carlos P. Romulo

#27. Anna ... envied Joan's deep connection with the human race. She was a member of the club. Anna was half convinced she'd been begotten by a passing alien life-form on a human woman. It was as good an explanation as any for the sense she had of being an outsider.

Nevada Barr

#28. During a visit to California, when a friend of my grandmother's told my parents that I must be deaf because I was not responding to sounds, my father was absolutely convinced that I was simply being stubborn.

Marlee Matlin

#29. Every warrior on the path of knowledge thinks, at one time or another, that he's learning sorcery, but all he's doing is allowing himself to be convinced of the power hidden in his being, and that he can reach it.

Carlos Castaneda

#30. I am absolutely convinced that the E.U. will still be around. I am convinced the U.K. will be sitting at that table and not negotiating an exit, but being there to stay.

Mark Rutte

#31. God crafted men's eyes and women's breast from the same material, I'm convinced. Whenever eyes wander toward cleavage, they're just trying to feel like they're home. It's also why breasts always know when they're being watched.

Adi Alsaid

#32. A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Alexandre Dumas

#33. People think they're being saved from a Bolshevik revolution," Frunze said. "The Nazi press has them convinced that the Communists were about to launch a campaign of murder, arson, and poison in every town and village.

Ken Follett

#34. Wherever you walk, stand or sit, do it with self-confidence and be firmly convinced: I am a singer! Being tentative is one of the deadly theatre sins.

Marita Knobel

#35. The story doesn't begin with grown women being massacred in the workplace or in the press. It begins with innocent little girls who become convinced, for whatever reason, that the girl within them isn't good enough.

Marianne Williamson

#36. Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#37. I was surprised when the ultrasound revealed that I was having a girl. I was convinced I was having a boy. And I was completely confounded by the fact that I wasn't in control of the situation; that I was being introduced to a different individual coming into my life.

Reese Witherspoon

#38. It was exhausting being a schizophrenic, which he was still convinced he was.

Meg Wolitzer

#39. She took care of evyone with the same no-nonsense air of friendliness and good cheer that made her seem so paradoxically wholesome, as if she were convinced that being a slut and being a really nice person were just two things that naturally went together.

Tom Perrotta

#40. I'm convinced being a tennis analyst is the easiest job in the world.

Andy Roddick

#41. Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

Ludwig Von Mises

#42. I am worthy of being read. I mean, one has to be convinced of one's genius.

Kate Zambreno

#43. I am convinced if the church went back to the main task of proclaiming the Gospel it would see people being converted to Christ, and it would have a far greater impact on the social, moral, and psychological needs of people than anything else it could possibly do.

Billy Graham

#44. I am absolutely convinced that there are weapons ... I saw evidence back in 1998 when we would see the inspectors being barred from gaining entry into a warehouse for three hours with trucks rolling up and then moving those trucks out.

William Cohen

#45. I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.

Osamu Dazai

#46. Having convictions can be defined as being so thoroughly convinced that Christ and His Word are both objectively true and relationally meaningful that you act on your beliefs regardless of the consequences.

Josh McDowell

#47. This thing about looking for someone less different ... It only really worked, he realized, if you were convinced that being you wasn't so bad in the first place.

Nick Hornby

#48. Marrying, founding a family, accepting all the children that come, supporting them in this insecure world, and perhaps even guiding them a little, is, I am convinced, the utmost a human being can succeed in doing at all.

Franz Kafka

#49. Many times in the Old Testament, God refers to human beings as His beloved. But when God called Jesus His beloved, Jesus did something truly remarkable: He believed Him. And He lived every moment of His life fully convinced of His identity.

Jonathan Martin

#50. Being equally convinced that aggression and rudeness are synonymous with having a "powerful personality."

Paulo Coelho

#51. That's the most terrible thing about being a child; you're convinced that it's all your fault. Lulu

Ruth Reichl

#52. Having a Christian worldview means being utterly convinced that biblical principles are not only true but also work better in the grit and grime of the real world.

Nancy Pearcey

#53. The kinds of mystical experiences that I have had definitely convinced me that I was able to get out of time. I have had experiences, or brief glimpses, of being able to see the future and then come back into time, and then go into extraordinary realms of the past.

Fred Alan Wolf

#54. I believe that people will do what is right and good if they are given a chance and are convinced that what they are being asked to do will truly help others.

Helen Boosalis

#55. I'm convinced hell is actually an eternity of being a snowflake in Nutcracker.

Kat Howard

#56. I'm convinced that each human being more or less builds his own reality. You are what you believe you are. We make images in our minds of what will be---based on what we believe or want, what we're afraid of---

Kristen D. Randle

#57. Humans are born free then put into cages, then convinced freedom is what being in a cage is, and what freedom is, is being in a cage.

Craig Stone

#58. I was convinced that being ripped in two by him would be the best pleasure I'd ever known.

Christina Lauren

#59. I have a single wish, and my whole being and faculties are yearning to attain it. They have yearned towards it so long, and so unwaveringly, that I'm convinced it will be reached - and soon - because it has devoured my existence: I am swallowed up in the anticipation of its fulfillment.

Emily Bronte

#60. Through fetishizing the inequality embedded in the romance story, women have somehow become convinced that being in, or even vying for, a relationship is something we should want
regardless of whether that relationship might hold equal power or doesn't serve us.

Samhita Mukhopadhyay

#61. Men are fighting ... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.

Ludwig Von Mises

#62. Wary of being caught unawares, we planned our parenthood, committed to trial marriages with pre-nuptials, and pre-arranged our parents' funerals - convinced we could pre-feel the feelings that we have heard attend new life, true love, and death.

Thomas Lynch

#63. I am perfectly convinced that I have both seen, and heard in a manner which should make unbelief impossible, things called spiritual which cannot be taken by a rational being to be capable of explanation by imposture, coincidence, or mistake.

Augustus De Morgan

#64. The so-called Conservative, the conscientious, philanthropic Conservative, seeing this, and being surely convinced that such inequalities are of divine origin, tells himself that it is his duty to preserve them.

Anthony Trollope

#65. we go through our social lives convinced that everything we are saying, doing and feeling is being closely examined by those around us even though, in reality, they are all preoccupied with themselves, equally convinced the spotlight is on them.

Will Storr

#66. I am not Nostradamus.Nor would I want to be. I'm convinced being able to tell the future is the worst superpower. I'd rather be invisible and being invisible never ends well. Just read H. G. Wells!

Justine Larbalestier

#67. I didn't like being alone. Being alone was slightly better than having to deal with people, that's all. Or so I'd convinced myself.

Lauren Myracle

#68. I am absolutely convinced that meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain; meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure. And that is why we find ourselves emptied of meaning with our pantries still full.

Ravi Zacharias

#69. Companies with aspirations to be larger publishers - Kabam, Kixeye, even Zynga - are moving aggressively off the Facebook platform to mobile and the open Web. Publishers aren't convinced that the costs of being on Facebook are worth it.

Mitch Lasky

#70. It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.

Rachel Hunter

#71. You can't go on all the time being whatever's necessary. Youve got to have some conviction, and I'm convinced I don't want to be anyone's underdog.

Tsitsi Dangarembga

#72. I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference.

Ludwig Quidde

#73. And she'd apologize for being so sensitive and moody lately. His warm hand on her hip brought her into the curve of his body. With his breath on her neck, she fell into a deep sleep, convinced that she was safe.

Lisa Genova

#74. Do you know how hard it is to be offered the one thing you always wanted just after you've convinced yourself that you don't anymore? Just when you've accepted that you'll never have it? It's cruel. Worse than never being offered it at all.

C.M. Stunich

#75. I believe every person has the ability to achieve something important, and with that in mind I regard everyone as special. A manager should feel this way about people, but it's an attitude that can't be faked. You've got to be honestly convinced that every human being is important.

Mary Kay Ash

#76. I forgave you because I love you and I hate being without you. I hate it, my cat hates it. And because Catarina convinced me I was being stupid.

Cassandra Clare