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We convince by our presence. -- Walt Whitman
The lavish presentation appeals to me, and I've got to convince the others. -- Freddie Mercury
One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others. -- Stefan Zweig
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends. -- George Washington
It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry. -- E. W. Howe
A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings. -- George Mason
If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. -- Sherry Argov
Convinced myself, I seek not to convince. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Believe in yourself. And stop trying to convince others -- James De La Vega
Convince yourself that everything is alright. Cause it already is. -- Pete Yorn
Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. -- H. L. Mencken
Learn something new. Try something different. Convince yourself that you have no limits. -- Brian Tracy
Convince people and you win their minds. Inspire people and you win their hearts. -- Ron Kaufman
Convince yourself that worrying about many situations will make them worse rather than improve them. -- Albert Ellis
Convince your enemy that he will gain very little by attacking you; this will diminish his enthusiasm -- Sun Tzu
The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember -- Harold Pinter
I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away. -- Thomas Love Peacock
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them. -- Harvey Mackay
If you fell head first into a pigsty, you'd try to convince everybody you did it on purpose. -- Robert Jordan
You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you. -- Al-Ghazali
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see. -- Henry David Thoreau
I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest. -- Muhammad Ali
The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince. -- Vince Lombardi
The easiest way to convince my kids that they don't really need something is to get it for them. -- Joan Collins
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you. -- Irving Layton
It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work. -- Harry S. Truman
Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it. -- Federico Fellini
Read "The Story of O." Convince yourself that it was in fact written by a woman or someone who thinks like a woman. -- Whitney Otto
Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince the person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. -- Zig Ziglar
It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role. -- Bela Lugosi
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
Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes. -- Jacques Barzun
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced. -- Jonathan Swift
Now go back and meet all those people who you think know everything. Convince yourself that they're right, because we all know everything, it's merely a question of believing. -- Paulo Coelho
Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith, reason over might. To blow up his children would only prove him right. -- Sting
Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders. -- Henry David Thoreau
Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed... Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders. -- Henry David Thoreau
If you can't convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S Truman
Testimonials are enough to convince people for now. -- Alex Chiu
Believe in yourself and stop trying to convince others. -- James De La Vega
To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time. -- Evita Peron
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence. -- Isaac Newton
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The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember. -- Harold Pinter
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed. -- John Henrik Clarke
Every day, you have to prove yourself and convince - move forward and challenge yourself. And doubt all the time. -- Christine Lagarde
I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults. -- Shigeru Miyamoto
I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own. -- Marina Abramovic
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore. -- Sigmund Freud
To convince people to back your idea, you've got to sell it to yourself and know when it's the moment. Sometimes that means waiting. It's like surfing. You don't create energy, you just harvest energy already out there. -- James Cameron
Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions. -- Rick Santorum
The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
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
The most difficult thing about living as a writer is precisely 'having to write.' Pretending to be a writer is easy. Living freely, reading many books, going on frequent trips, cultivating minor eccentricities... but genuinely being a writer is difficult, because you have to write something that will convince both yourself and readers. -- Kim Young-ha
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
However, people need to understand that it ain't that deep to try and convince people of what your persona is. You are who you are, and what you are will show in time. What you aren't can be hidden, but eventually it will come to light. Long story short: rappers should never take themselves too seriously. -- Wale
I think it would collapse my heart if I was super famous. I don't have the nerve for it, I'm too anxious. I don't know how you're not obsessed with how people perceive you, because they're real people, you know? You can convince yourself that they don't really know you, and that's true, but how can it not hurt your feelings? -- Bo Burnham
Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion. -- Richard Bach
If you can't convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S Truman
Metaphors convince at once or not at all. -- Mason Cooley
I'm not out to convince anybody of anything. -- William Shatner
Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate. -- Jonathan Alter
Don't let anyone convince you that love doesn't matter. -- Katherine Center
Perception is the lie that we convince ourselves exists -- Melissa Bradley
If you're not convinced, how can you convince others? -- Jeffrey Gitomer
It's hard to convince a winner that he's losing. -- Mike Caro
We don't have to convince people how screwed they are. -- Jill Stein
My thing is trying to convince them they can win. -- Dick Butkus
he was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty. -- Walter Dean Myers
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But facts always convince, and another man's opinion rarely convinces. -- Anthony Trollope
I have to convince myself I know what I'm doing. -- Joe Namath
If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself. -- Lord Chesterfield
A man can convince anyone hes someone else but never himself. -- Kevin Spacey
You don't have to convince Muslims of God's existence or importance. -- Peter Kreeft
If you're happy inside you don't have to convince everyone else. -- Anna Maxted
One who believes in himself has no need to convince others. -- Laozi
You have only one way to convince others, listen to them. -- George Washington
A brain you can convince, a simpleton you have to persuade. -- Curt Goetz
If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement. -- Leon Trotsky
I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick. -- Vivien Leigh
Politics and acting are very closely tied. The job is to convince. -- Kevin Spacey
Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation. -- Rudy Rucker
I'm definitely not in a band to convince anyone I can sing. -- Joe Casey
Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error. -- Thomas Jefferson
The most intolerant advocate is he who is trying to convince himself. -- Ambrose Bierce
If only he could convince her, his dream would be within reach -- Anamika Mishra
Lately Ive been working to convince myself that everything is a computation. -- Rudy Rucker
it is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do ... -- Ellen Glasgow
Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly of misspending time. -- George Washington
I wonder how they convince their conscience believing in myths and fallacious stories. -- M.F. Moonzajer
You can't convince me that the founding fathers wouldn't allow you to secede. -- Glenn Beck
God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. -- Francis Bacon
How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him. -- Malcolm Lowry
It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good. -- Molly Ivins
I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something. -- Manuel Puig
Love is joy. Don't convince yourself that suffering is a part of it. -- Paulo Coelho
Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince. -- Josh Billings
There's no way you could convince me today that Jesus is not real. -- Lee Strobel
If you don't stop apologizing, you're going to convince me you've done something wrong. -- Kate Morton
Barack Obama and the Democrat Party convince people that America's best days are over. -- Rush Limbaugh
A person who is not convinced, enthusiastic, certain and in love, will convince nobody. -- Pope Francis
There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise. -- Sarah Dessen
It's a lot easier to convince uninformed people than it is to convince politicians. -- Alexis Ohanian
Trying to convince myself I've found one. Making the mistake I never learned from. -- Drake
Nobody would ever convince me that the bronchitis and pneumonia were caused by cigarettes. -- Barbara Warren
I learned many years ago never to waste time trying to convince my colleagues. -- Albert Einstein
There've been periods where I had to convince the audience or win them over. -- Dan Hicks
I think what we have to do is convince people that matter is tacky. -- Terence McKenna
My challenge is to convince Ontarians that the old world is not coming back. -- Dalton McGuinty
It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. -- Mark Twain
It can be very expensive to try to convince the markets you are right -- Ed Seykota
It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself. -- Oscar Wilde
If you can't convince them [with your logic] then just confound them [with your wit.] -- Harry S. Truman
Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves -- Pat Summitt
Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds. -- Bonnie Friedman
People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all. -- John Steinbeck
Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul. -- Walt Whitman
What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince. -- Lucian Freud
Let him who wants to move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself. -- Thomas Carlyle

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