To Convince You Quotes

#1. Is there anything I can say to convince you to stay out of this?" he pleaded, his voice taking on a softer tone.
I shook my head. "Of course not."
"I didn't think so," he said miserably.

Ada Adams

#2. 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

#3. If you want to save capitalism there is only one type of argument that you should adopt, the only one that has ever won in any moral issue: the argument from self-esteem. Check your premises, convince yourself of the rightness of your cause, then fight for capitalism with full, moral certainty.

Ayn Rand

#4. The trick to not killing yourself was to convince yourself, every single day, that your departure from the world would have a devastating effect on absolutely everyone around you, despite consistent evidence to the contrary.

Jennifer DuBois

#5. Every day, you have to prove yourself and convince - move forward and challenge yourself. And doubt all the time.

Christine Lagarde

#6. The real question is whether all your pondering and analyses will convince you that life is worth living. That's what it all comes down to.

Brian Greene

#7. It's so much easier to convince yourself you're madly in love with someone when you know nothing about him.

Megan McCafferty

#8. The day before you died was the longest, slowest day ever. It gave you more time than you could possibly want to contemplate all the things you'd got wrong, the chances you'd missed, the errors you'd made. It was long enough to convince the most hopeful person that there was no point in anything.

Juliet Marillier

#9. In this work, you have to convince everyone all the time, at different levels, to support your dream. I learned you have to be confident in order to do that.

Nicolas Ghesquiere

#10. The problem with a lot of people is that what they think is a virtue is actually a vice in disguise. It's much easier to convince yourself that you're reasonable and civilised, than soft and weak, isn't it?

Kevin Dutton

#11. if you want to convince children of the power of books, don't tell them stories are good. Tell them a good story.

Roger Sutton

#12. If you're happy inside you don't have to convince everyone else.

Anna Maxted

#13. It's mostly just you have to convince yourself that there's nothing else in the room but John Lennon and suddenly things start John Lennon-ing!

Grant Morrison

#14. What do I have to do to convince you that I'm only using Dabria for one reason, one only reason: Destroy Hank, bit by bit if is necessary,and make him pay for all the things he has done to harm the girl I love?

Becca Fitzpatrick

#15. 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

#16. I close my eyes and suddenly remember something Nina had told me the night before my first day of middle school: If you're going somewhere where you feel like you might not belong, the only person you need to work to convince is yourself. Everyone else is easy.

Lynn Weingarten

#17. Half of the people in the world will tell you to follow your head, half will tell you to follow your heart. My advice, follow the one that isn't confused. The stronger one will eventually convince the other to fall in line.

Penelope Ward

#18. If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.

Harvey MacKay

#19. I would have said, "Why do you have to use victims to illustrate your point? Why can't you just convince me on the basis of the evidence that what you're proposing is the right solution for America?

Ben Shapiro

#20. 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

#21. Everything I do from now on, I'll have a mustache. I can promise you that. I don't care who I have to convince. If you see me with a mustache in a movie or on stage in the future, you'll know that I pitched the idea.

Ty Burrell

#22. And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense to convince yourself otherwise.

Paulo Coelho

#23. People like to have fun and they like to laugh. And when you laugh, it's much easier to convince people and they laugh with you, rather than being angry. And I think laughter's always nice and I've always liked it.

Mechai Viravaidya

#24. The Democrats' ads convince me that Governor Romney can't sing, but his record convinces me he knows how to lead, and I think you know which skill we need more.

Artur Davis

#25. I do not believe that the Duke will find those terms acceptable. Might I convince you to reconsider - "
"Dear God, go faul yourself, you self-important gecko!

S.G. Night

#26. Fear of criticism is a powerful deterrent because the criticism doesn't actually have to occur for the fear to set in. Watch a few people get criticized for being innovate, and it's pretty easy to convince yourself that the very same thing will happen to you if you're not careful.

Seth Godin

#27. Savannah, I've been talking my ass off for more than an hour now, telling you shit no one's ever heard anything about, hoping that I'll say something, Jesus God, anything that will convince you to have sex with me.

Suzanne Brockmann

#28. To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

John Henrik Clarke

#29. 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

#30. The most powerful way to convince the interviewer that you can do the job is to show how much you already know about the industry, the company, and the products/services of the company. In other words, enchant the interviewer with how much you already know.

Guy Kawasaki

#31. Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.

Winston S. Churchill

#32. There is no way to convince someone that you don't hate him or her. You can convince him or her, however, that your opposition is a liar and a hater. When

Ben Shapiro

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

Robert Jordan

#34. No, you won her over. Gave up everything for her. Maybe that's the only way to convince her you love her.

Suzanne Collins

#35. I've never had anyone put on a puppet show to convince me of anything. And I've done a lot of stuff. I don't know that I would put the puppets on when I was pitching a show. This was the head of the studio putting a puppet show on. And I'll tell you, he wasn't bad.

Garry Shandling

#36. 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

#37. What do I have to do to convince you I'm the one you should run to, not away from? Tell me and I'll do it.

Lisa Renee Jones

#38. I get a lot of criticism for telling founders to focus first on making something great, instead of worrying about how to make money. And yet that is exactly what Google did. And Apple, for that matter. You'd think examples like that would be enough to convince people.

Paul Graham

#39. Be worried if no one is criticizing you. Your job in life is to ignore the 33% who will never like you and do your best to convince the 33% who don't care either way to join the 33% who love you

Robert Kiyosaki

#40. That was the thing I hated, that I'd made such a lousy choice. But I didn't. You set out to convince me you were exactly what I was looking for. I had no reason to mistrust you. You lied, I didn't.

Susan Mallery

#41. Properly defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future.

Peter Thiel

#42. Listen to Mr. Complacency long enough and he'll convince you that what you really, really need is a nap.

Alex And Brett Harris

#43. There's no way to convince people of your greatness. Whatever it is that you want to be, you have to know it inside and knife-fight your way to your dream.

Lady Gaga

#44. A girl should never disguise the fact that she's a girl. It's a lot easier to convince a man that you're a fascinating female if you look the part.

Pat Boone

#45. I'd like to convince you that the universe has a soundtrack and that soundtrack is played on space itself, because space can wobble like a drum.

Janna Levin

#46. You dont need to convince everyone. All you need to do is motivate people who choose to follow you.

Seth Godin

#47. When you want to transcribe an idea truthfully from the page to the screen, it is not necessarily best to be particularly literal about it. It can be hard to convince people, specifically writers, of that.

Alison Owen

#48. You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

Robert A. Heinlein

#49. The song 'My Way' is a very remarkable song. It is also difficult to sing because you've got to convince people that what you're singing about is the truth. It's a man who is very proud of having achieved everything that he's achieved his way.

Christopher Lee

#50. If you have to convince someone that you are their soulmate then you didn't realize the thousand other guys applying for the job.

Shannon L. Alder

#51. 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

#52. It can be very expensive to try to convince the markets you are right

Ed Seykota

#53. You must break all the rules of painting, but you must also convince me you've had a reason to do so.

Hans Hofmann

#54. Teaching and writing, to me, is really just seduction; you go to where people are and you find something that they're interested in and you try and use that to convince them that they should be interested in what you have to say.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#55. Too much research can be the writer's enemy. You can spend days on end in the British Library or prowling the streets with a Dictaphone, and it's easy to convince yourself that you're working hard. Often, it can be an excuse not to work; a classic displacement activity.

Mark Billingham

#56. You'd literally lie, cheat, and steal -hell, kill- to convince people you are a good guy

Gillian Flynn

#57. The best way to convince someone is by making him realize that what you speak came from his own mind.

Alan Watts

#58. In enlightenment you have to convince a teacher not only that you are worthy of teaching, but then that they should show you some of the secrets.

Frederick Lenz

#59. If you have to convince someone to stay with you then they have already left.

Shannon L. Alder

#60. The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody that they should buy into this idea, but at two o'clock in the morning when you're all on your own you're going, 'Geez, I hope I know what I'm doing. I hope this idea is gonna work.'

Gavid Hood

#61. I entered Excessive Modesty Mode. Nothing is stupider and more ineffective than Excessive Modesty Mode. It is a mode in which you show that you're modest by arguing with someone who is trying to compliment you. Essentially, you are going out of your way to try to convince someone that you're a jerk.

Jesse Andrews

#62. An idea isn't worth that much. It's the execution of the idea that has value. If you can't convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it's not worth it.

Joel Spolsky

#63. This acting's serious! And I really respect those actors. It's a tough business to be able to be something you're not and be natural and convince people on camera.

Michael Strahan

#64. The devil wants to convince you that dying is the worst thing. It is very much easier to do what god made you for than not.

Jackie Pullinger

#65. A strong player requires only a few minutes of thought to get to the heart of the conflict. You see a solution immediately, and half an hour later merely convince yourself that your intuition has not deceived you.

David Bronstein

#66. ... it never comes down to a single thing you did or didn't do or say. You might convince yourself it did, but it didn't.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#67. You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.

Erica Jong

#68. I do not expect or even try to convince anyone else to be religious or practice any spirituality. Your faith, your choice. Just walk in love and try not to be a hateful shrew and you'd be doing life right.

Luvvie Ajayi

#69. You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe

Carl Sagan

#70. So if you're drowning, keep your life jacket on and fight. But once you're able to swim, don't convince yourself you forgot how to. Take your life jacket off, front-crawl your way to the shore, walk off that beach, and set your GPS to the top of a hill, because you WILL conquer the climb.

Lilly Singh

#71. You can't make someone do something they don't want to, but if you are kind about it, you can convince them to do the right thing, even if they are uncertain what that is.
--Jala, Healer to the House of Soris

D.G. Novak

#72. You stupid cow!" He laughed at her behind those icicle eyes. "You really think anyone is better than you? Everyone's a thief, woman! Waiting for the next terrible thing to do to get ahead of their neighbor. Forty of us around a table weren't enough to convince you of that?

Devon Trevarrow Flaherty

#73. If you're to succeed at any endeavor, the first and most important person you must convince is yourself. Success comes not from merely a belief that you can do it. Success comes when you absolutely know you can achieve it

Ralph Marston

#74. I suspect scotch is something you have to convince yourself to enjoy, like sushi or the last few Radiohead albums, but I can't deny the result is nice. "You

Matthew Norman

#75. Let me make it clear. There will be no repeat of that night. Absolutely not! Not ever, do you understand?"
"Who are you trying to convince, Tessnia? Me or you?

Jalpa Williby

#76. And there are people that will stand in your corner and convince you to stand up for another round no matter what.

Pete Wentz

#77. When I am preparing my 'lookalike' photographs, I think about the character of the real people, because, if the photographs are going to be plausible, you have to convince the viewer that they could have happened.

Alison Jackson

#78. You lie to convince people you are not a monster . . . not that you are one.

Jodi Picoult

#79. Clearly you did not rise to your exalted position through sales," she said after a moment, only the faintest catch in her dry voice. "Because your pitch could use some work.

Caitlin Crews

#80. One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. Now to have that come true - I've actually gone on stage depressed and that's worked its magic on me, 'cause if I can convince you that I'm alright, then maybe I can convince me.

Carrie Fisher

#81. Splitting the atom is like trying to shoot a gnat in the Albert Hall at night and using ten million rounds of ammunition on the off chance of getting it. That should convince you that the atom will always be a sink of energy and never a reservoir of energy.

Ernest Rutherford

#82. I'm no werewolf, and I'm tired of hearing the word. I'm a Changeling, okay? And either you trust me or we call it quits right here. It was Travis's turn to fold his arms, as if he was daring her to convince him.

Dani Harper

#83. I can't convince you to put the drink down if you're an alcoholic, you have to want to do that. I can't convince you to stop eating the cookies when you're a diabetic. You have to do that. And that takes responsibility.

Don Young

#84. It might take an act of God to convince some Americans that parts of their government are corrupt, but at the same time, you cannot, under any circumstances, persuade an Iranian that his government is not corrupt!

Mahbod Seraji

#85. 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

#86. 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

#87. Maybe it's naive to say, but it almost seems like, in the past, people tried to sell you something you would actually need, like a hammer or a broom or a toothbrush. But now there's this notion that they can sell you anything. And all they have to do is convince you that you need it.

Tracy Chapman

#88. Politics are private. I don't understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another.

Carolina Herrera

#89. To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.

Todd Gitlin

#90. One of the adversary's sharpest tools is to convince us that we are no longer worthy to pray. No matter who you are or what you may have done, you can always pray.

Boyd K. Packer

#91. What do you want from me? I keep telling you I don't care about this secret. I'm telling you I want you. I don't know what else to say to convince you.

Jamie McGuire

#92. I've got a really hard election. If you had a really hard election and it was after Labor Day would you go to North Carolina to a bunch of parties and glad-handing or would you stay home and work as hard as you know how to convince Missourians they should rehire you?

Claire McCaskill

#93. First of all, convince yourself that you are the best because the rest of your life is going to go proving this to others.

Wasim Akram

#94. Hope can be a mighty powerful thing when you decide to tangle it into a journey. Hope can shake things up a bit. It'll convince you that even if you don't know what direction you're headed in, something will meet you at the end.

Hannah Brencher

#95. I don't have to convince anyone that I love you.

Dominique Eastwick

#96. 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

#97. Losing can persuade you to change what doesn't need to be changed, and winning can convince you everything is fine even if you are on the brink of disaster.

Garry Kasparov

#98. I'm going to do less performing because I'm tired. It's hard to convince anybody that you're just going to take it easy.

Elaine Stritch

#99. Confidence; Noun. A condition where one knows what he is good at no matter how much you try to convince him otherwise.

Dan Pearce

#100. Pessimists try to convince you the world sucks, optimists already know it does and smile anyway.

Jonathan Harnisch