Quotes About Not Being Convinced

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

H.L. Mencken

#2. 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

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

Rupi Kaur

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

William Hazlitt

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

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

William Faulkner

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

Jacob M. Appel

#18. 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

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

Karl Popper

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

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

Phil Crosby

#29. 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

#30. 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

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

Paulo Coelho

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

Ruth Reichl

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

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

Kat Howard

#37. 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

#38. 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

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

Christina Lauren

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. 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