George Washington Quotes

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

I consider myself to be quite persuasive when I want.

Certainly, truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic.

I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It.

Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time!

Even when I was wrong, I got my point across.

So it's mix and match. Hold your line when you really feel something you're saying is wonderful and you really want to get this point across and prove it to your partner by just throwing it into the tape and letting it speak for itself.

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

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

I can be pretty persuasive if I believe in something strongly enough.

I made lots of talks and challenged lots of people.

I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.

People who see no gray tend to convince others to follow them. If someone talks with great conviction and joy, people tend to agree with them.

Henry Clay's eloquence did not consist, as many fine specimens of eloquence do, of types and figures, of antitheses and elegant arrangements of words and sentences, but rather of that deeply earnest and impassioned tone and manner which can proceed only through conviction in the speaker of the justice and importance of his cause. This it is that truly touches the chords of sympathy; and those who heard Mr. Clay never failed to be moved by it, or ever after forgot the impression. All his [oratorical] efforts were made for practical effect. He never spoke merely to be heard.

In order to make a good speech you must have something to say and you have to believe it.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.' Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, 'Yes, I deserve it.'

I'm not hyper-opinionated, but when I do have an opinion, I'm very stubborn, and I want to persuade everyone to my point of view.

There's no point meeting somebody with a meat cleaver the moment they open their mouth - because they're going to clam up, you're going to have lost your impact and the audience is going to hate you for not allowing anyone to say anything.

I can sell anything. I'm very convincing.

I am a very persuasive man.

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

No matter what stage of life you are graduating from or entering, learning how to build and state your case is something every person in the world should know how to do.

I tell folks when I walk into a room, when I leave, you may not like me - you may not agree with me - but by golly, you will not misunderstand where I am. I get things done.

Say what you believe in a manner that bespeaks the determination with which you believe it.

A person who is not convinced, enthusiastic, certain and in love, will convince nobody.