Top 100 I Am Convinced Quotes
#1. I am convinced now that virtually every destructive behavior and addiction I battled off and on for years was rooted in my (well-earned) insecurity.
Beth Moore
#2. I am convinced that human history has not yet begun, that we find ourselves in the last period of the prehistoric.
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
#3. Believe me, blond hair can take you really far, especially with the older men. It can really distract from the face. I am convinced I could have had sex with both Tony Bennett and John McCain if we weren't each happily married at the time we all met.
Amy Poehler
#5. You imagine that I look back on my life's work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a single concept of which I am convinced that it will stand firm, and I feel uncertain whether I am in general on the right track.
Albert Einstein
#6. When I am convinced of any principle, it is only an idea which strikes more strongly upon me. When I give the preference to one set of arguments above another, I do nothing but decide from my feeling concerning the superiority of their influence.
David Hume
#7. I am convinced that God Himself is tampering with the economic system of the world to reduce us back to Him.
Myles Munroe
#8. I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.
Lawrence Bossidy
#9. I am convinced that abstract form, imagery, color, texture, and material convey meaning equal to or greater than words.
Katherine McCoy
#10. I am convinced that the public, large majority of the Greek people, realize that policies pursued in the past and the market practices have to be changed, in order to improve the prospects of the Greek economy. So there is, I think, strong public support despite the increases in social tensions.
Lucas Papademos
#11. Unhappy business men, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy.
Bertrand Russell
#12. I might not be a psychiatrist, but I am convinced that sex is not as important as we tend to make it. First there is that little feeling, that little red flame, called love. Blow on the flame and make it get bigger like a fire, don't blow it out like a candle.
Xaviera Hollander
#13. I am convinced that success is not measured by what you get out of life, but by what you give back.
Jerry Moran
#14. I am convinced that the best learning takes place when the learner takes charge.
Seymour Papert
#15. I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
Charles Dudley Warner
#16. My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment.
Albert Einstein
#17. I am convinced that companies should put staff first, customers second and shareholders third - ultimately that's in the best interest of customers and shareholders.
Richard Branson
#18. Every now and again I just really have to have that steak or lamb chop. But yeah, B.C. - before cancer - I would eat red meat probably three or four times a week, easily. I am convinced that the amount of red meat I contributed to it.
Robin Roberts
#19. Male conspiracy cannot explain all female failures. I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant. Genius is not checked by social obstacles: it will overcome.
Camille Paglia
#20. One thing I am convinced of is that the more you do, the more you can do.
Lauren Bacall
#21. I am convinced that there can be no regeneration of mankind until laughter is put down.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#22. I am convinced that policies meant to reduce alleged carbon dioxide-induced global warming will be destructive.
Christopher Monckton
#23. I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence.
Jonathan Swift
#24. I am convinced that during bouts of insomnia, I have sometimes slept without knowing it.
Siri Hustvedt
#25. If I am convinced that I will procure the profoundest idea only by undergoing the profoundest pain, I shall beg for strength to endure that pain.
Kedar Joshi
#26. And I am convinced that a single focus on preserving the purchasing power of the dollar, in effect, guarding against inflation or deflation, actually creates a solid foundation for the greatest job growth and the strongest economy that America can have.
Kevin Brady
#27. For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.
Edmund Burke
#28. I am convinced that everyone can develop a good heart and a sense of universal responsibility with or without religion.
Dalai Lama
#29. I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a passtime, if we live simply and wisely
Henry David Thoreau
#30. After forty years of working on prevention of a wide range of common and costly psychological and behavioral problems, I am convinced we have the knowledge to achieve a healthier, happier, and more prosperous society than has ever been seen in human history.
Anthony Biglan
#31. 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
#32. It is a matter of fact; I approached without a preconceived idea, too ready to declare, if the experiment had imposed upon me the confession, that there was a spontaneous generation, of
which I am convinced today that those who assure it are blindfolded.
Louis Pasteur
#33. If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.
John F. Kennedy
#34. The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the E.U. and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true.
Atifete Jahjaga
#35. I don't trust my mind for everyday thinking, but I am convinced that it has one very great function, which is to eventually make me aware of astounding things.
Jim Woodring
#36. I don't want to quit smoking. I am convinced that if I quit smoking, the world would go to hell.
Marjane Satrapi
#37. The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#38. I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.
Fanny Fern
#39. What happiness is, no person can say for another. But no one, I am convinced, can be happy who lives only for himself. The joy of living comes from immersion in something that we know to be bigger, better, more enduring and worthier than we are.
John Mason Brown
#40. I am convinced now that the desert has no heart, that it presents a riddle which has no answer, and that the riddle itself is an illusion created by some limitation or exaggeration of the displaced human consciousness.
Edward Abbey
#42. I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#43. Sometimes I am convinced there is nothing wrong with this country that couldn't be cured by the magical implantation of ethical standards on us all - leaders and followers. Until that becomes doable, the Center for Public Integrity is just about the best thing we have going for us.
Ben Bradlee
#44. There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such a picture, the canvas would show only a woman looking down at her empty arms.
Charlotte Bronte
#45. I am convinced that nine out of every ten persons seeing a psychiatrist do not need one. They need someone who will love them with God's love ... and they will get well.
Paul Tournier
#46. The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages; from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.
Sydney Smith
#47. The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president.
David Herbert Donald
#48. The Bible has much to say about the brevity of life and the necessity of preparing for eternity. I am convinced that only when a man is prepared to die is he also prepared to live.
Billy Graham
#49. I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player.
Roberto Clemente
#50. I am convinced that if you serve great value, people will come to you.
Eric Ripert
#51. Personally, I am convinced the human personality does survive the change which we call death. Although we have no scientific evidence of this at present, there is no reason to suppose it will always be lacking.
Jane Roberts
#52. We have defined holiness through what we separate ourselves from rather than what we give ourselves to. I am convinced the great tragedy is not the sins that we commit, but the life that we fail to live. You
Erwin Raphael McManus
#53. I am convinced that when a man sincerely searches for God with all his heart, God will reveal Himself in some way.
Billy Graham
#54. I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century.
Valentina Tereshkova
#55. The other way that rocks are smoothed is by grinding against each other. God has placed us among people who manage to rub us the wrong way. I am sure that you may feel this way about more than one person in your life. I am convinced we will always be given someone to grind on us!
Andrew Mullek
#56. 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
#57. It's our responsibility to see to it that the good outweighs the evil and I am convinced beyond a doubt that today's Americans will do exactly that!
Zig Ziglar
#58. The drive ... is to create a one world government ... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope ...
Larry McDonald
#59. But do you know what: I am convinced that we underground folk ought to be kept on a curb. Though we may sit forty years underground without speaking, when we do come out into the light of day and break out we talk and talk and talk....
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#60. I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.
E.P. Thompson
#61. Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.
Noam Chomsky
#62. I am convinced by the events of the last few weeks that nefarious forces of people
unidentified but no less real
are threatening life as we know it, and in fact, may be bent on unraveling the very fabric of our existence.
Christopher Moore
#63. Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they can really decide which one of two or more roads to follow.
Corliss Lamont
#64. I am convinced that America can be turned around if we will all get serious about the Master's business. It may be late, but it is never too late to do what is right. We need an old-fashioned, God-honoring, Christ-exalting revival to turn American back to God. America can be saved!
Jerry Falwell
#65. I am convinced the next major attack against the United States may well be conducted by people with Asian or African faces, not the ones that many Americans are alert to.
George Tenet
#66. I am convinced that the reason why my kids have become very fulfilled and achieving human beings is because I wasn't raising them alone.
Gioconda Belli
#67. I am convinced that missionary work is not easy because salvation is not a cheap experience. Salvation never was easy. We are the Church of Jesus Christ, this is the truth, and He is our Great Eternal Head. How could we believe it would be easy for us when it was never, ever easy for Him?
Jeffrey R. Holland
#68. I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.
Nelson Mandela
#69. The more I read arguments for atheism, the more I am convinced it takes a very strong faith to be an atheist. And atheism seems to me the least reasonable of all faiths.
Corrado Ghinamo
#70. I am convinced that true healing ultimately comes from the outside; it comes as an act of hospitality, as we respond to and welcome the indwelling presence of the Creator God who "formed my inward parts" (Ps 139:13).
Adam S. McHugh
#71. I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#72. I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc..
Voltaire
#73. Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown.
Albert Einstein
#74. I am convinced that I never wrong anyone intentionally...
Socrates
#75. I am convinced the Dallas Cowboys coaching staff has been winging it the past few years. No consistency.
Ace Antonio Hall
#76. I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.
Lord Chesterfield
#77. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens and 90% how I react to it.
Neil Pasricha
#78. Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice.
Salmon P. Chase
#79. In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.
N.K. Jemisin
#80. I read reviews a lot for the audiobooks I narrate, so I've seen the comments about how readers would do anything to make book boyfriends real. Here I am, convinced I'm standing in the arms of one, and I'm about to walk away from him.
Colleen Hoover
#81. Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live.
Joe Montana
#82. I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.
Charles Darwin
#83. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.
Albert Einstein
#84. He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly.
George Carlin
#85. I am convinced, that when a man tells a woman he loves her, he only means that he desires her; and that the only total love in this world is that of a father for his son.
Enzo Ferrari
#86. The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!
Jane Austen
#87. I am convinced that real community flows out of right relationship with God and not that right relationship with God flows out of right community.
Wayne Jacobsen
#88. I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.
Jules Verne
#89. As an American, and especially as a Christian, I am convinced that a love for our own people is not a bad thing, but love doesn't stop at borders. Love is infinitely boundless and all about holy trespassing and offensive friendships.
Shane Claiborne
#90. I am convinced that a calm, quiet and harmonious interior can be as beneficial to health as a sensible diet and regular exercise
Kelly Hoppen
#91. I am convinced that by eating biological foods it is possible to avoid a tumor.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#92. I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#93. I am convinced that the minimum-wage law is the most anti-Negro law on our statute books in its effect, not its intent.
Milton Friedman
#94. I am convinced that the norm in Russia should become a family with three children.
Vladimir Putin
#95. Shall we ever see the 10 million things of the universe simultaneously in order to be the all? I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end.
Ella Maillart
#96. I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past.
Edward Sapir
#97. 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
#98. Whatever happened to God's justice? I am convinced that God exist and God is one asshole.
William S. Burroughs
#99. I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.
Benjamin Britten
#100. Bel Air, I am convinced, was laid out by some diabolic sadist who deliberately decided not to use a compass or a surveyor.
Groucho Marx
