Trying To Convince Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Bianca Frazier

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Jeaniene Frost

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

Andy Garcia

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

Albert Einstein

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

James De La Vega

#12. 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

#13. 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

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

Albert Camus

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

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

Bella Jewel

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

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

Martina Navratilova

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

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

Casey Stengel

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

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

Moby

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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

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

Kid Cudi

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

Greg Egan

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. 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

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

Robert Jordan

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

Robert Breault

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

Walter Isaacson

#54. 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

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

Himmilicious

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

Sarah Miller

#57. 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

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

Walter Dean Myers

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. 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

#62. Maybe I am a little bit guilty of trying to convince myself that I am cool to this point - even today. But I am so much more healthy than I used to be in my twenties, because I was not accepted at all.

Donny Osmond

#63. As those who are chosen, blessed, broken, and given, we are called to live our lives with a deep inner joy and peace. It is the life of the Beloved, lived in a world constantly trying to convince us that the burden is on us to prove that we are worthy of being loved.

Henri Nouwen

#64. 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

#65. The problem is someone will try to convince you
That they know the answer no matter the question
Be wary of those who believe in a neat little world
'Cause it's just ... crazy - you know that it is

Dave Matthews

#66. Now, if you will excuse me, a dead woman is trying to convince me to drink something that comes in layers.

Seanan McGuire

#67. A lie's true power cannot be accurately measured by the number of people who believe its deception when it is told, it must be measured by the number of people who will go out after hearing it trying to convince others of its truth.

Dennis Sharpe

#68. Never waste your time trying to convince someone else of your worth. If they can't see it, they are not worth the effort.

Amari Soul

#69. Rafe was trying to convince an older couple that they needed an extra toilet.

James Patterson

#70. Carter placed her fingers over his hand and signed a single sign.
"I love you too," she answered.
"How did you know what I said?" He moved his fingers along her arm trying to convince himself she was truly with him.
"I listened with my heart." Her gaze locked with his.

Jodi Thomas

#71. 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

#72. Al Davis is the kind of guy who would steal your eyes and then try to convince you that you looked better without them

Sam Rutigliano

#73. 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

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

Ed Seykota

#75. I'm always trying to convince myself there's something important about what I do. But some peoples' lives are really altered by a night at the theater.

Jennifer Damiano

#76. 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

#77. You will meet people who believe all network marketing opportunities are pyramid schemes. Why spend all your time trying to convince them otherwise when there are legions of people who are open to what you have?

Randy Gage

#78. 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

#79. 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

#80. 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

#81. My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the world that it is ugly, sick and hypocritical.

George Grosz

#82. Maybe the world isn't full of signs so much as it's full of people trying to use whatever evidence they can find to convince themselves of what they hope to be true.

Jennifer E. Smith

#83. She is trying to convince me that she never does this and is not that type of girl. It was difficult for me to understand. Her enunciation wasn't very good with my dick in her mouth.

Tucker Max

#84. I get offered a lot of parts where I want to say, 'Why don't you just hire a model? Don't hire an actor.' I'm trying to convince people I'm a real actor, not some mannequin.

Tim Daly

#85. And the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.

Terry Pratchett

#86. The last thing I want to do is expend my energy trying to convince my own coworkers.

Tracy Kidder

#87. My thing is trying to convince them they can win.

Dick Butkus

#88. 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

#89. The children never connect me with the man onstage when I come out the stage door. The parents spend all their time trying to convince them that I'm Caractacus.

Raul Esparza

#90. 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

#91. 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

#92. I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business.

Kevin Spacey

#93. I spent 15 years of my career trying to convince people that Indian cinema is relevant. I am so proud of Indian cinema and I am so proud of my Indian roots. The IIFAs are doing a great job to this effect.

Shekhar Kapur

#94. We spend a good part of our lives trying desperately to convince ourselves as well as everybody else that we know more than we really do.

Charles Osgood

#95. She's an evil vixen. I close my eyes and squeeze my forehead, trying to figure out how I just lost complete control of myself simply because I was kissing her. I think of all the lies that were just passing through my head as my dick tried to convince me she was actually a decent person.

Colleen Hoover

#96. 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

#97. You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that you're actually not that tired.

Robert Breault

#98. Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.

Bob Ehrlich

#99. We go round and round trying to convince one another that our opinion makes more sense. And the only winner is time for making us look like fools by wasting it.

S.A. Tawks

#100. 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