Quotes About Trying To Convince Yourself

#1. Believing something is just a way of trying to convince yourself that something you so desperately want is real.

Bella Jewel

#2. You have allied yourself with stupid, violent men, and you are trying to convince yourself that being stupid and violent will work. That makes you stupid too. I will never help you. I'll fight you now." Cortez

James S.A. Corey

#3. Alessa looked at Brennus giving him a smirk.
"Brennus."
"Alessa."
"Still think that you are the God's gift to all faeries?"
"Still trying to convince yourself that I am not?" Brennus responded smirking arrogantly and leaning back in his chair.

B.C. Morin

#4. I can't do it. It would be like, say, trying to fall in love with somebody, or trying to convince yourself that your favorite food is pancakes. You don't decide those things, they just happen to you. If God is real, He needs to happen to me.

Donald Miller

#5. Once you start splitting hairs, trying to convince yourself some things are more acceptable to destroy, you've already lost the most important war.

Karen Marie Moning

#6. It sounds to me like you're making excuses," Jeb said quietly. "You're trying to convince yourself, and you're using me to listen to yourself talk.

Nicholas Sparks

#7. It's about his family. It will always be about his family. And himself. Deep in your heart you know that and you're trying to convince yourself that you can save him. And you can't. There's no saving Dylan Daniels.

Molly O'Keefe

#8. Hey Boo, I'm in this now, too, & I got a lot of experience playing assholes like they're fucking harps. You need backup, I got you. Stop trying to convince yourself that you're in this alone.

Alexandra Bracken

#9. What an utter disgrace it would be to find something truly magic and spend any time at all pretending and trying to convince yourself it is all just an unbelievably orchestrated and beautifully choreographed illusion.

Tyler Knott Gregson

#10. I'm just not into trying to convince people like me. I always say to myself, 'It is what it is.' I walk into a situation knowing that people are either going to love me or they're not, and that's OK. I'm just going to be me. You can't be everything to everyone.

NeNe Leakes

#11. These days people spend more time trying to convince the world that their life is perfect than they spend on actually improving their lives.

Saccheen Laing

#12. much of my time trying to convince people to do

Walter Isaacson

#13. Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.

Robert Breault

#14. If you fell head first into a pigsty, you'd try to convince everybody you did it on purpose.

Robert Jordan

#15. The most confused we ever get is when we're trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.

Karen Marie Moning

#16. I can't have you," she said, trying to convince them both.
His fingertips slid over her silky skin as he pulled the strap on her tank top down her arm.

Jennifer Kacey

#17. That's just your ego, trying to make sure it stays in charge. This is what ego does. It keeps you feeling separate, keeps you with a sense of duality, tries to convince you that you're flawed and broken and alone instead of whole.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#18. Everybody says, TV is great, the writer has so much power. I'm still trying to convince myself that's true. When do the writers ever have power? Ever? They don't. Even in the book industry.

Matthew Specktor

#19. It was like listening to two badly written computer programs trying to convince each other that they were sentient.

Greg Egan

#20. When you try to convince yourself that something doesn't bother you, it usually bothers you more.

Kid Cudi

#21. I don't pay much mind to politricks. Never met a politician who wouldn't try to convince you that salt was sugar.

Nalo Hopkinson

#22. Larry Schwarm's photographs of fire on the prairie are so compelling that I cannot imagine any later photographer trying to do better. His pictures convince us that seemingly far away events are close by, relevant to any serious person's life.

Robert Adams

#23. A God who is trying to convince people that He is a God is not a God! He is just a clown disguised as a God! No supreme power can be in need of convincing men!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#24. If the bottom dropped out of the market and the artist was not going to sell anything, he or she will keep working, and the dealer will keep trying to find some way to convince somebody to buy this stuff.

Chuck Close

#25. Europe cannot solve this alone. We need stronger U.S. activity on the climate change issue if we are going to move forward. We are trying to do what we can to convince them to be more active on this.

Anders Borg

#26. Before you meet the love of your life, there's usually one guy you date that you try to convince yourself is him. Let me save you some time: He's not.

Jenny Mollen

#27. Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his/her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.

Zig Ziglar

#28. As long as you as an individual ... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up.

Tom Hanks

#29. I understand the need to convince others you're okay before you can
believe
it yourself. I understand you can never really believe it
yourself,
but everything in your body relies on you trying anyway.

Darshana Suresh

#30. Sometimes the way comes later, when I'm not working or thinking about it at all. When stories don't work, you try to convince yourself that all of that time and energy wasn't wasted, that it will make you a better writer, if nothing else.

Mary J. Miller

#31. If we don't accept loneliness, then capitalism wins hands down. Because capitalism is all about trying to convince people that you can distract yourself, that you can make it better. And it ain't true.

Tilda Swinton

#32. Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.

Joel Osteen

#33. When you've gone to silence and are trying way too hard to convince yourself that you've done the right thing, you might want to examine whether you are intentionally minimizing the cost of not speaking up and exaggerating the risks of doing so.

Kerry Patterson

#34. Do not chase another human being. Instead, chase your curiosity. Chase your development and your goals. Chase your passion. Strive to work for something bigger than yourself, and instead of trying to convince someone that you fit within their world, strive to build your own.

Bianca Sparacino

#35. If you know something is true, you don't need to convince anyone of it. If you are trying to convince anyone, it is probably yourself.

Alan Cohen

#36. I am trying to convince myself.. how much I hate you.. the way I convinced, how much I love you..

Himmilicious

#37. How do you deal with giving yourself the options in the editing room for dealing with problems that come up from a shifting tone? It's trying to convince your actors to give you the genes and several versions to have more options in the editing room.

John Requa

#38. They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, and I am simply a bird in their midst.

Erin Morgenstern

#39. Learn something new. Try something different. Convince yourself that you have no limits.

Brian Tracy

#40. You know, in the case of most of us, the mind is noisy, everlastingly chattering to itself , soliloquizing or chattering about something, or trying to talk to itself, to convince itself of
something; it is always moving, noisy.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#41. After a lifetime of engaging in long, passionate discussions I have come to the conclusion that it is a waste of time trying to convince anyone of anything.

Michael Foley

#42. He was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty.

Walter Dean Myers

#43. I spend a lot of time trying to convince myself that nothing really matters except being alive.

Sarah Miller

#44. The most intolerant advocate is he who is trying to convince himself.

Ambrose Bierce

#45. I interviewed - no - had lunch with Harper Lee several years ago, trying to convince Harper Lee to do "To Kill a Mockingbird" for the book club. She wouldn't do it. She said, "Honey, I said everything I wanted to say."

Oprah Winfrey

#46. Before the decathlon I'm constantly trying to convince myself that I want to do this, that I want to take myself to that place where it's going to hurt and things are going to be tough. But that's like anything - you want to give your best.

Bryan Clay

#47. Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.

Gary Snyder

#48. Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd

Albert Camus

#49. It was one of those late summer days trying its best to convince everyone that winter would never seep through and ravage the earth.

A.J. Waines

#50. But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.

Frank Miller

#51. Believe in yourself and stop trying to convince others.

James De La Vega

#52. I learned many years ago never to waste time trying to convince my colleagues.

Albert Einstein

#53. I've ... learned that it's a hell of a lot easier to just build something than to try to convince somebody who doesn't believe it's possible.

Paul Baran

#54. I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything. I just want (the audience) to have an experience that moves them.

Andy Garcia

#55. Why do you bother, Crispin? You married a fighter, so stop trying to convince her that the sidelines suit her better.

Jeaniene Frost

#56. When a liar uses words to convince someone to believe them it's like trying to swim with weight wrapped around your legs. It won't work. Eventually you'll tire out and sink.

Rachel Van Dyken

#57. There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go.

Bill Gates

#58. Arrogance is trying to convince others you're more than who they know you are.

Bianca Frazier

#59. Cord put his hat on and pulled it low, hiding his eyes. 'Grown man walks around with his eyes shut tight, he shouldn't be surprised if he bumps into something he didn't see. You aren't trying to convince anybody of anything they don't want to believe.

Ellen O'Connell

#60. I hope that one day I will gain power somehow, and somehow convince myself that there is still hope and go back and fight, people who's trying to make that place worth living for both Jews and Palestinians.

Sayed Kashua

#61. Religions are strange. They seem to be caught in some dream which they won't give up and trying to convince others of the truth of their dream, when in fact each person is having their own dream. Take what you need from the religions and just leave the rest, and be all right with that.

Art Hochberg

#62. One of the reasons why fundamentalists are so aggressive in trying to promote fundamentalism is because deep down they know it's arbitrary. If you're comfortable with your belief you don't need to convince other people to agree with you.

Moby

#63. I remember desperately trying to convince my wife that what I was believing was real - that I was being followed, that I was involved in some type of mind-control experiment. I couldn't understand why she couldn't believe me.

Scott Stapp

#64. She didn't like to say things flatly, but sometimes it is the perfect antidote to someone trying to convince you the noose in their hand is a lovely silk ribbon for your hair.

Catherynne M Valente

#65. I believe in ghosts because I had a paranormal expierience once that was very personal. Though, every fiber in my being tries to convince me they don't exist.

Gerard Way

#66. The duke sounded like he was trying to convince himself. "Have you ever done this before?"
"Set up someone by pretending to be someone else? Sure. Pretended to get killed? Not so much.

Brent Weeks

#67. You know, my goal is not to convince you that I'm right or that you're wrong. About homophobia. Gun violence. Racism. Whatever the issue. I'm really trying hard with you - and others - to have a respectful discussion, debate about these issues.

Steven Petrow

#68. Hollywood-Nobody's impressed by anybody because they're all too consumed with trying to cover up their own shortcomings. Hollywood is a microcosm of a world of lazy moral ideals and social indifference where every man is trying to convince himself he's a king.

J. Matthew Nespoli

#69. That's the beauty of it. Have you seen the contraptions these magicians build to accomplish the most mundane feats? They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, I am simply a bird in their midst.

Erin Morgenstern

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

Casey Stengel

#71. I was trying to convince myself I could learn to be gay - but no. That's one of my great regrets.

Moby

#72. We're [Ocean Conservancy group] trying to convince people it's a bad idea to catch fish faster than they can reproduce. That should be a duh, but it's still going on.

Mark Powell

#73. The same as she'd always done when she'd seen me suffer because I wanted something to be different than it was and she was trying to convince me with that single word that I must accept things as they were.

Cheryl Strayed

#74. In suffering, you've found a greater understanding and appreciation for all of life's wonders. You're still trying to believe it every day. One morning you convince yourself it will all be worth it, the next you're down and believe it all to be worthless.

Connor Franta

#75. I thought in 1965 that my job was to convince most Americans to be against the war. So I spent summers knocking on doors, handing out literature, trying to talk to people who didn't agree with me, trying to get them to see the war was wrong. And by 1968 a majority of Americans did oppose the war.

Bill Ayers

#76. What planet are you living on? Who are you trying to convince - me or yourself.

Martina Navratilova

#77. Ask the person trying to convince you of something to explain how it would work. Odds are they have not done the work required to hold an opinion.

Anonymous

#78. Whether it's trying to convince others that something is more true, more virtuous, or more desirable
all communication is rhetoric in action.

Leonard Koren