Erich Maria Remarque Quotes

Self-confidence carries conviction; it makes other people believe in us.

My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe.

If you know what you're talking about, or if you feel that you do, the reader will believe you.

If you work with convictions, people have got to listen to you.

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

Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable …

I am a very persuasive man.

I consider myself to be quite persuasive when I want.

If you didn't want to believe in me, that's OK, because I'll make a believer out of you.

Audiences believe what you believe. It's a matter of believing yourself. If I believe me, then you've got no choice. None at all.

The person with the most certainty in a given situation will influence the other.

I'm sure everybody looked at me cockeyed. But if you don't believe it, then it's not going to happen. If you don't believe it, no one else is going to believe it. But if you believe it and keep saying it, then slowly one person will believe you, then two, then three, then four . . .

If you can make someone believe that you believe in the idea then I think that's worth a lot.

I think people don't like when you're not confident about what you're pitching, and they don't want to invest in you or get behind you.

It's really surprising that what you put on paper, people will believe.

It was important to me to believe, because if I don't believe, how can I expect them to believe?

One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.

The facts are on our side.

Only conviction sells. Well, when we are insecure, we really don't have that 100 percent conviction. Once we have it, we can tide over everything.

I have a vision, and I know I'm right.

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.

All you have to do is just believe in what's there; then, the audience will, too.

As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.

You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.

You will never convince anyone to do anything unless you believe it should be done.