Convince Quotes

I'm supposed to convince you, for two hours, that I'm somebody else. Now if you know everything about my life, if you think you've got me figured out and you think you know all my dark secrets, how am I ever going to convince you that I'm somebody else?

I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.

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

In speech after speech on his health care plan, the President has tried to convince us that what he is proposing will be good for America. But, how can it be good for America if it raises taxes by a half trillion dollars and costs a trillion dollars or more to implement?

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.

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.

I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.

There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. Now to have that come true - I've actually gone on stage depressed and that's worked its magic on me, 'cause if I can convince you that I'm alright, then maybe I can convince me.

My challenge is to convince Ontarians that the old world is not coming back.

Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying on propaganda; so a corps of propagandists, if I may use the term, is thus trained.

Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.

When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.

Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.

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.

There's a lot of money with a lot of big law firms that have a tremendous amount at stake by getting the right language to convince the right jury that my client is either innocent or that the opposition is guilty.

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

On network TV, I'm still Phoebe to people, and it would be hard to convince them otherwise in the bright lights of a sitcom.

Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.

When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours;.

In the beginning I had a real work problem. Every time I had job I had to convince the immigration authorities I was the only man for that job and get a special work permit until I went under contract to MGM.

The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.

To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time.

My concern was whether I could do the job of a justice well enough to convince the nation that my appointment was the right move.

I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.

I've got a really hard election. If you had a really hard election and it was after Labor Day would you go to North Carolina to a bunch of parties and glad-handing or would you stay home and work as hard as you know how to convince Missourians they should rehire you?

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.

I don't need to convince anybody that I know kung fu, but maybe somebody needs to know that I really can act, without doing a Chinese accent or a funny walk.

The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why they always end up being so personal - because the kind of artists I like, they convince me, they totally win me over straight away in that thing. Like, 'Oh my God, this song is totally about me.'