Winning People Over Quotes

#1. The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape from it.

Joseph Goebbels

#2. I don't want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he seems rather unsuccessful at winning people over who don't already agree with him.

Mohsin Hamid

#3. Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. Revolutions and revolutionary wars are inevitable in class society, and without them it is impossible to accomplish any leap in social development and to overthrow the reactionary ruling classes and therefore impossible for the people to win political power.

Mao Zedong

#5. If you are in a leadership position, do not rely on your title to convince people to follow you. Build relationships. Win people over. Do that and you will never be a lonely leader.

John C. Maxwell

#6. While silly ni**as argue over who gon' snatch the crown / Look around my ni**a, white people have snatched the sound / This year I'll probably go to the awards dappered down / Watch Iggy win a Grammy as I try to crack a smile.

J. Cole

#7. To attract people, to win over people to that which I have realized as being true, that is called propaganda.

Joseph Goebbels

#8. I'm in a no-win situation. If I have my kids in the show, I'm exploiting them. If I don't, people will think I'm not a hands-on mom.

Denise Richards

#9. There is great potential and deep fragility [in Malaysia] that can be used by any group that stresses on religion, pushing towards Islam, rejecting people and alienating migrants - anything can be used to win the next elections. So these are the signs of fragility that is very much there.

Tariq Ramadan

#10. There were people who gave everything they had to the war because it was the last war and by winning it we would remove war like a thorn from the flesh of the world and there wouldn't be any more such horrible nonsense.

John Steinbeck

#11. Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.

Aristophanes

#12. People tell you that you cannot, because they do not.

Tim Fargo

#13. The nature of touring is packaging acts together that have strong catalogues of music. It's about making sure that it's a winning combination. It's really about giving people value for their money.

Vivian Campbell

#14. When millions of people stand up and fight ... they win.

Bernie Sanders

#15. I don't see politics as one or two people just making or delivering announcements - it's also about winning public support and the public enthusiasm. You've got to win public support.

Gordon Brown

#16. Historic figures have homes to visit for posterity; the Lord of history left no home. Luminaries leave libraries and write their memoirs; He left one book, penned by ordinary people. Deliverers speak of winning through might and conquest; He spoke of a place in the heart.

Ravi Zacharias

#17. Winning the war on terrorism will also require a level of moral clarity that can provide a vision for struggling people and nations everywhere.

Adam Schiff

#18. When you think of me as a football player, I would like for people to think that I put it on the line every time. Good or bad, win or lose, I put it on the line.

Joe Greene

#19. I don't doubt myself ever, but people that don't know me do. I've been playing for 15 years, and have the most playoffs wins in Wings history for a reason, and not because I'm a bad goalie.

Chris Osgood

#20. It's better to let God fight your battles. Besides, He has something greater for you than meaningless issues & people. #WINNING

LaNina King

#21. Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that's why people gravitate to that so much.

Steve Nash

#22. People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far.

Marcel Dionne

#23. A lot of people are afraid of winning. I was afraid I might not win.

Arnold Palmer

#24. There's going to be a lot of people that don't like you, and there's nothing you can do about it. Instead of trying to win them over one by one, you need to do things that are getting huge swaths of votes [in the elections].

Michael Schur

#25. The peace we seek to win is not victory over any other people, but the peace that comes "with healing in its wings;" with compassion for those who have suffered; with understanding for those who have opposed us; with the opportunity for all the peoples of this Earth to choose their own destiny.

Richard M. Nixon

#26. Living a connected life ultimately is about setting boundaries, spending less time and energy hustling and winning over people who don't matter, and seeing the value of working on cultivating connection with family and close friends.

Brene Brown

#27. If people of one's own side have good conduct, it adds power to oneself. The misconduct on the contrary render one powerless. The enemy taks advantage of it. A skilled statesman never allows enemy to win over.

Chanakya

#28. What the Nazis themselves claimed to be their chief discovery - the role of the Jewish people in world politics - and their chief interest - persecution of Jews all over the world - have been regarded by public opinion as a pretext for winning the masses or an interesting device of demagogy.

Hannah Arendt

#29. Revolution is a drama of passion. We did not win the people over by appealing to reason but by developing hope, trust, fraternity.

Mao Zedong

#30. I was this guy who'd been racing around down there, on that field in 1999, running straight over people, scoring tries, winning games, having fun. And I ended up so sick I couldn't even run past a little baby.

Jonah Lomu

#31. I think it's a lot harder when you're opening. You really have to win people over.

Simon Taylor-Davis

#32. Over half a century on and they're still complaining about it. Compare it to the fact that Garden State didn't win an Oscar and they seem a little petty if you ask me. I guess that just goes to show what kind of people they really are.

Zach Braff

#33. The revolutionary's role is to liberate, and to be liberated, with the people
not to win them over.

Paulo Freire

#34. When people look and decide they have nothing in common with me - I'm 43, balding, blond, whatever - there's something absolutely invigorating about winning them over. Even if it's eight people from Sweden who don't understand what I'm talking about.

Jim Gaffigan

#35. After the Cougars' 19-15 Cotton Bowl victory over Kansas State We're the only team in NCAA history to win 14 games in a season. It was just a great experience and I can't say enough about it ... People don't know how difficult it is to get up for 15 games.

LaVell Edwards

#36. I make little account of victory. Nothing is so stupid as to vanquish; the real glory is to convince.

Victor Hugo

#37. Word is sort of spreading by itself, largely among young people. And if word gets out that young people can actually come out to the polls and, in fact, take over this election in order to liberate themselves from life-long debts, we could actually win.

Jill Stein

#38. I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. 'The Gathering' did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time.

Anne Enright

#39. I want to work for Nigeria, my blood is here. I captained this team for 14 years, and it is my country. But you people think if there is no Super Eagles we won't exist. I came from another country to coach the Super Eagles so don't think if we don't win my career is over, no. It's just starting.

Stephen Keshi

#40. It is my aim to win the american people over to our side, to make them all lovers of beer.

Adolphus Busch

#41. The problem with us EU politicians is that we approach everything with cool rationality, and then wonder why we don't win people over emotionally.

Martin Schulz

#42. Passionate conviction ... sparks romances, wins battles, and drives people to pursue dreams others wouldn't dare. Belief in ourselves and in what is right catapults us over hurdles, and our lives unfold.

Howard Schultz

#43. American officials have bent over backwards to show how sensitive they are to Muslim culture. It didn't seem very effective. They seem to be worried about winning the respect of other people.

Tucker Carlson

#44. People are already talking about the next presidential election. There's stories all over about who might run. At a recent speech, a prominent Democrat said that Hillary Clinton should not run because she can't win. Immediately after the speech, Hillary told her husband to shut up.

Conan O'Brien

#45. You don't win with X's and O's. What you win with is people.

Joe Gibbs

#46. It seems with every match I win, I get better-looking to other people.

Andy Roddick

#47. Hong Kong's people will get what they want, despite China's objections. Freedom invariably wins in the end.

Chris Patten

#48. Tom Cruise shouldn't try to win Oscars. He should just smile and kick people in the face and leave the acting to Hugh Jackman. Why Hugh Jackman? I dunno; come up with your own example, smart-ass.

Doug Benson

#49. You're going to see a million people here who have the courage to come and not let terrorists win, and that's exactly what we should all do.

Michael Bloomberg

#50. If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win.

Steve Jobs

#51. 'Masquerade' is the autobiography of Wyclef Jean. A lot of people know me through my work with Carlos Santana or Destiny's Child, winning all those Grammy Awards, but you do not know what is going on inside me.

Wyclef Jean

#52. To really become motivated to succeed, people need to believe they can win.

John C. Maxwell

#53. I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time I see one of those sly, toothless, beaten-down souls on TV holding a winning ticket, I think, Go, team.

Amy Bloom

#54. Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley. Most people don't want Ferraris, they want a winning seed investment.

Sam Altman

#55. Everything big, once started little. Discipline yourself and work to become an excellent person at what you want. Stretch yourself daily and go a little further than yesterday. Growth is the key to winning success.

Mark LaMoure

#56. When you promise yourself something, make a commitment, you can't give up. Because, when you're in the gym, you have to fulfill the promise you made to yourself. The people who can self motivate - in any field - are usually the ones who win. Regardless of talent.

Tom Platz

#57. So when they win, it's their hard work
And when they lose, it's their bad luck

Sanhita Baruah

#58. Winning the Indy 500 in 1995 and the Formula 1 championship in 1997 are very special moments for me, and the people in NASCAR show me respect for what I've achieved so far in my career.

Jacques Villeneuve

#59. Penny, how can you behave like a total idiot?"
Anne giggled, "I have no pride when it comes to winning back people I love.

Anya Wylde

#60. People here want the team to win and to do well. The thing is, we know when to shoot the puck.

Steve Yzerman

#61. We love winners, even though they're very rarely particularly likeable people. They're almost always obsessive and selfish and inconsiderate. That doesn't matter. We forgive them. We like them while they're winning.

Fredrik Backman

#62. Most people only work enough so that it feels like work, whereas successful people work at a pace that gets such satisfying results that work is a reward. Truly successful people don't even call it work; for them, it's a passion. Why? Because they do enough to win!

Grant Cardone

#63. Every organisation faces challenges, but few seize to perform, not due to any shortage of funds, technology or knowledge, but due to the fact that people in such organisations do not use their creativity to explore innovative solution for their challenges.

Sukant Ratnakar

#64. Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave to the garbage men going by. So, I had this relationship with Blue Collar America and I really liked it. I felt that lots of those people looked forward to me winning.

Gerry Cooney

#65. I fire people that win gold medals, great champions, everything else, and, you know, it's not - it's not easy. People say oh well it comes easy for me, it doesn't. And it's never fun. It's all to easier though when I don't like somebody or when they're really, really bad then it becomes much easier.

Donald Trump

#66. When people see you do alright, then you start winning their hearts. It's not going to come easy, though. It doesn't matter how many people you do right, you're still going to be hated by so many others. You can't live your life trying to make everybody happy.

Cam Newton

#67. It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you become really committed to winning and become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.

Robin Morgan

#68. American young people have got to understand from an early age that the world pays off on results, not on effort. Not everyone should win a prize no matter where he or she finishes.

Thomas Friedman

#69. I want to produce with people that are going to be on the charts and win Grammys because having regular old street songs is cool, but I did all that already.

AraabMuzik

#70. Divorce is the biggest drain, outside of school fees, and nobody wins. People think it is always in the woman's favour, but it is not necessarily.

Anthea Turner

#71. You don't make movies to win awards. You make movies because you want people to see them.

Robin Tunney

#72. The purpose of apologetics is not just to win an argument or a discussion, but that people with whom we are in contact may become Christians and then live under the Lordship of Christ in the whole spectrum of life.

Francis Schaeffer

#73. People say that scars are the sign of victory; the winning marks against what broke them. But how about the wound that never heals? What would that make you? A winner, a loser, a survivor?

E. Mellyberry

#74. People confuse being world No. 1 with winning a Major championship.

Lee Westwood

#75. Intimacy with a beloved pet or special animal makes millions of people feel as though they win the lottery every day.

Marty Becker

#76. I'm basically like, you know, learned pretty quickly the guy who throws the first punch usually wins, so when people gave me a hard time I just punched them.

Quentin Tarantino

#77. You can always win points; winning people's respect is a lot more important.

John Flanagan

#78. I'm overwhelmed with my own feelings and the feelings I have for all the people who were rooting for us to win this thing.

Garry Maddox

#79. The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.

John Cage

#80. Everyone in my life thinks I'm competitive because I want to win, but it comes from me wanting everyone to have a good time. And when I see that people aren't enthused, I try to make it really uncomfortable for everyone so they get enthused and want to play hard.

Christina Applegate

#81. Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understanding and nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result.

Joe Torre

#82. Outrageous generosity is a character quality of people who win with money.

Dave Ramsey

#83. I am going in there to win this fight. I don't think people are taking me seriously. I'm gonna surprise a lot of people. This guy helped two people make history.

Bernard Hopkins

#84. My father had a very simple view of life: you don't get anything for nothing. Everything has to be earned, through work, persistence and honesty. My father also had a deep charm, the gift of winning our trust. He was the kind of man with whom many people dream of spending an evening.

Grace Kelly

#85. Everybody uses labels: they give you a handle on things - an over-simplified handle, sure, but without labels, without ads, without words, the world would be an indistinguishable mass, a blur. You can hope, maybe, that people ascribe so many labels to you that none wins out

Vito Acconci

#86. I have just accepted certain things and it makes it easier. I accept I will get injured. I accept I cannot win every race. I work hard to decrease the chances of those things happening but I accept they will happen. A lot of people don't accept it. They get injured, they go crazy.

Usain Bolt