If you're not convinced, how can you convince others?

Just keep smiling and pretending you're happy, and then maybe after you've convinced everyone else that you are, you can convince yourself.

— Anonymous

A man must be himself convinced if he is to convince others. The prophet must be his own disciple, or he will make none.…

— George Henry Lewes

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

— Stefan Zweig

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

— John Henry Patterson

In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but…

— Epictetus

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears…

— Jonathan Swift

A man who is convinced of the truth of his religion is indeed never tolerant. At the least, he is to feel pity for…

— Albert Einstein

I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

The privilege of prayer to me is one of the most cherished possessions, because faith and experience alike convince me that God himself sees…

— Wilfred Grenfell

I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time…

— Vaclav Havel

But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second…

— Vikram Sarabhai

Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.…

— Ram Dass

The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he…

— Philip Yancey

“Sometimes we want something to be true so badly that we convince ourselves that it is true.”

— Wally Lamb