Convince Quotes

To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.

You English are mad, mad, mad as March hares. What has come over you that you are so completely given over to suspicions quite unworthy of a great nation? What more can I do than I have done? I declared with all the emphasis at my command… that my heart is set upon peace, and that it is one of my dearest wishes to live on the best of terms with England. …. To be forever misjudged, to have my repeated offers of friendship weighed and scrutinized with jealous, mistrustful eyes, taxes my patience severely. I have said time after time that I am a friend of England, and your press … bids the people of England refuse my proffered hand and insinuates that the other holds a dagger. How can I convince a nation against its will ?

Intelligent people simply aren’t willing to accept answers that they don’t understand — no matter how many other people try to convince them of it, or how many other people believe it, if they aren’t able to convince them selves of it, they won’t accept it.

Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master.

Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate.

Arguments hardly affect the faithful- their beliefs have an entirely different foundation.

You can’t convince me that the Founding Fathers wouldn’t allow you to secede.

God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

If you believe in something, be willing to explain it.

Metaphors convince at once or not at all.

We don't have to convince people how screwed they are.

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

… another man‘s opinion rarely convinces.

Hunter and I never got proper journalistic accreditation to go anywhere. Nobody was giving us passes to go in here or there. We always had to somehow talk our way in.

My proof convinces the ignorant, and the wise man's proof convinces me. But he whose reasoning falls between wisdom and ignorance, I neither can convince him, nor can he convince me.

We just have to convince other people that they have power. This is what they can do by participating to make change, not only in their community, but many times changing in their own lives. Once they participate, they get their sense of power.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

Sovereignty was not an issue in this campaign. The sovereignty numbers that were there before the campaign are still there. Sovereignty is as alive as it was. But there is work to do to convince Quebecers.

When you don't believe something, you can't make yourself believe it. There's nothing you can do to believe it again. You either believe it or you don't.

When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.

Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion.

The cool thing about making a Western is that people want to be in them. You rarely get the opportunity. With horror movies you are always trying to convince them. People in horror are always worried it's going to be this schlocky thing, and you're always trying to convince them that it's not. With Westerns, people immediately react with, "Oh, I've always wanted to do one."

If you can just convince the dope people that the gun people are right and the gun people that the dope people are right, we could actually live in a lot more freedom.

The most intolerant advocate is he who is trying to convince himself.

he was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty.