Quotes About Convincing Yourself

#1. If you truly desire money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want money, and to be so determined to have it that you convince yourself that you will have it.

Napoleon Hill

#2. There's no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible, and therefore never even trying.

Max Tegmark

#3. He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something that
doesn't make you unhappy. The trick was convincing yourself these were one and the same.

Jodi Picoult

#4. Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument.

Robert Half

#5. Delayed gratification is making a choice, constantly convincing yourself to hold back and pursuing immediate gain or profit.

Sunday Adelaja

#6. You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so much time convincing yourself that you remember them. Way less mental energy is spent swimming around in lyrics you've already written and chords you've already played.

Jeff Tweedy

#7. But there is something about the process of convincing yourself that you don't care that just confirms even more that you do.

Tarryn Fisher

#8. Free huffed. "It's hardly my fault you made a hero of my father."
"No," he said softly. "But every bloody time I convince myself I ought to walk away from you ... "
"Well," she said simply, "you wouldn't have that problem if you stopped convincing yourself of stupid things.

Courtney Milan

#9. The advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing.

Susan Howatch

#10. Although I regularly convince myself otherwise, because I aim at something doesn't necessarily mean I have a target.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#11. Why do you think Jesus used wine to symbolize his blood? ...
I think the Lord used wine for dozens of reasons, but one of the most convincing for me is the fact that crafting a glass of fine wine is nothing less than a very intentional, almost sacrificial, act of love.

Nicole Baart

#12. Be moved by a person's actions, not their words. Remember a sugar-coated lie sounds more convincing than the naked truth.

Angeline M. Bishop

#13. The essence of proper bond selection consists, ... in obtaining specific and convincing factors of safety in compensation for the surrender of participation in profits.

Benjamin Graham

#14. The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.

Vladimir Lenin

#15. Until the administration can articulate a coherent and convincing policy for closing Guantanamo, it should remain open.

Jason Chaffetz

#16. I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman - I'll kiss a frog if you like.

Stephen Fry

#17. Photography has fooled the world. There's no more convincing fraud. Its images are nothing but the expression of the invisible man working behind the camera. They are not reality, they form part of the language of culture.

Edmundo Desnoes

#18. I've come to terms with the fact that I'm not convincing as an American.

David Anders

#19. An Inconvenient Truth is so convincing that it makes opposers of the argument as credible as Holocaust deniers.

Jon Niccum

#20. A convincing demonstration of correctness being impossible as long as the mechanism is regarded as a black box, our only hope lies in not regarding the mechanism as a black box.

Edsger Dijkstra

#21. If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

Lord Chesterfield

#22. I had a hell of a time convincing people I was gay - which was so annoying!

Portia De Rossi

#23. Haymitch said you'd take a lot of convincing.

Suzanne Collins

#24. All his life, he had found his way out of difficult situations by determining what people wanted and then convincing them that he was the best one to provide it. Then he'd go ahead and provide it, even if providing it meant walking the narrowest of paths.

Jonathan Darman

#25. Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

Will Rogers

#26. The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.

Gaston Bachelard

#27. A photograph presents itself not only as a visual representation, but as evidence, more convincing than a painting because of the unimpeachable mechanical means whereby it was made. We do not trust the artist's flattering hand; but we do trust film, and shadows, and light.

John Updike

#28. When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)

Joseph Campbell

#29. We are faced with the task of convincing a myth infatuated world that love and curiosity are sufficient and you don't have to delude yourself and frighten yourself with Iron Age fairy tales. This is a monumental task. I don't think there is an intellectual struggle more worthy of our efforts.

Sam Harris

#30. If you can't be yours while being mine, maybe you aren't as yours as you'd like to convince yourself that you are.

Aleksandra Ninkovic

#31. In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing cases have been made to show that all great art is provincial in the sense of reflecting a place, a time, and a Zeitgeist.

Richard M. Weaver

#32. Never let anyone convince you of anything negative about yourself unless it is for your own betterment.

Bryant McGill

#33. That's the problem with fiction - or the charm, if you want. Even mediocre plots have a way of sinking their hooks into you, until you find yourself concerned for the fates of characters who aren't even fully convincing.

Charles McGrath

#34. If you need a certain vitality you can only supply it yourself, or there comes a point, anyway, when no one's actions but your own seem dramatically convincing and justifiable in the plot that the number of your days concocts.

John Ashbery

#35. A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain.

Llewellyn Powers

#36. My lesson from Soros is to start every meeting at my boutique by convincing everyone that we are a bunch of idiots who know nothing and are mistake-prone, but happen to be endowed with the rare privilege of knowing it.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#37. It occurred to her then that there was a reason age drained the pleasure out of life, slowly stripping away all the things you enjoyed or took for granted. It was so you wouldn't need convincing when the time came. You'd be ready, because everything good in life was gone.

Laura McHugh

#38. The simplest explanation usually sounds right and is far
more convincing than any complicated explanation could
hope to be.

Scott Adams

#39. The person who has been accustomed to subdue men by force will be less inclined to the trouble of convincing or persuading them.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#40. Wes Anderson's mind must be an exciting place for a story idea to be born. It immediately becomes more than a series of events and is transformed into a world with its own rules, in which everything is driven by emotions and desires as convincing as they are magical.

Roger Ebert

#41. If you mean to unhinge me, young Jhonis, you will need to be more convincing. Allow me to demonstrate. You are a surface-crawling, poisonless bug who means to frighten a wolf. For I will trample you beneath my toe without ever knowing you existed.

Quoleena Sbrocca

#42. Obama has placed himself in perfect political position: he spent the 2008 campaign convincing the American people that he's a racial unifier rather than a divider, without any evidence to prove it.

Ben Shapiro

#43. Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#44. Political leaders normally act by making convincing speeches.

Helmut Schmidt

#45. Trane's playing is literally the most convincing proof of God's existence I've ever come across.

John Green

#46. The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.

Elihu Root

#47. From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.

Pablo Picasso

#48. Female Chauvinist Pigs is smart, alarming, and extremely funny. With nuance and humor, Levy has written both a convincing expos of sex and desire in contemporary America and an important cultural history. I'm giving a copy to my mother. And my sons.

Cathleen Schine

#49. Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it's not just me. Me and my talent comes in taking that consensus and then making something wonderful out of it - a work of art.

Lawrence Halprin

#50. If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

Angela Thirkell

#51. The quality of the Neues Museum's construction is extraordinary even by German standards, and people can smell that quality. The concept would not have been so convincing without it.

David Chipperfield

#52. A trial relied heavily on oaths, but both sides would bring as many liars as they could muster, and judgment usually went to the better liars or, if both sides were equally convincing, to the side who had the sympathy of the onlookers.

Bernard Cornwell

#53. Our mistakes show us that the contents of our minds can be as convincing as reality.

Kathryn Schulz

#54. Obama still has work to do with the vision thing. Convincing voters that he has a credible, practical plan to turn the nation around is a process, not a speech.

Ron Fournier

#55. It is really hard to make it convincing enough that you forget you are playing a video game.

Tim Page

#56. I meant you're very, very persuasive and I doubt I'd resist for long if you set your mind to convincing me."

"Say no sometime. Let me persuade you.

Anne Calhoun

#57. She always had that empty look ... It's a particular blankness, and I've mostly seen it on billboards for so-called gentlemen's clubs. The convincing ones have that same empty look. Like they know just how to void themselves and not get in the way of some "gentleman's" fantasy.

Rachel Kushner

#58. Never try to negotiate with anyone after he or she has eaten. People are best persuaded on an empty stomach. And forget power breakfasts. There is no convincing anyone of anything before 10 A.M.

Joyce Brothers

#59. The media is convincing people that if you have that 'next thing,' that diamond, the right car, then you'd be happier.

Hill Harper

#60. We were lovers,' he says dramatically. 'I was very convincing.' Livia giggles and reaches up to stroke his hair. Hank pretends not to notice Livia's hand as it crawls across his cheek, and it turns into a game. Her fingers pet his lips as he mumbles through them, 'What part do you want?

Rachel M. Wilson