George M. Cohan Quotes

You've got to get as literal as you can get to convince people sometimes that you can do something.

Words do not convince me; I must have deeds.

When truth cannot make itself known in words, it will make itself known in deeds.

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

The pitch is the most important thing for us: not the words, not on paper.

Look, it's a show-me game. I've got to be able to show it.

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.

Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen.

Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly.

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

I don't believe in the power of words.

We must reinforce argument with results.

Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence.

I'm not trying to prove anything.

The most obdurate incredulity may be shamed or silenced by facts.

One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who only have interests.

It's hard to win people's minds over. The only way to change their minds is to perform.

A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth. The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement is the speaker's enthusiasm for the result.

Doubts could be swept away only by deeds.

TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying "deeds, and not words, are what count most.

It isn't enough to love; we must prove it.