Convinced Quotes

1364 Convinced quotes by 1066 unique authors

...when you are convinced that all the exits are blocked, either you take to believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird. The… — Henry Miller
A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face of all the… — Salman Rushdie
And why are you so firmly, so triumphantly, convinced that only the normal and the positive--in other words, only what is conducive to welfare--is for… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally. — Maya Angelou
There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such… — Charlotte Bronte
What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,’....… — Maya Angelou
I could tell Hugo was convinced that he would get to walk back up these stairs: after all, he was a civilized person. These were… — Charlaine Harris
I'm afraid not." Hades sighed. "My son here convinced me that perhaps I should prioritize my list of enemies." He glared at me with distaste.… — Rick Riordan
The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is… — Booker T. Washington
And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I am convinced that much more emphasis should be placed on history. The purpose of history is to learn how human beings react when exposed… — George S. Patton
Earlier in my life I thought the things that mattered were the things that you could see, like your car, your house, your wealth, your… — Jimmy Carter
When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do. — Gabrielle Zevin
I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid… — Mahatma Gandhi
I was secretly convinced that with such a marvel one would be able to write anything, from novels to encyclopedias, and letters whose supernatural power… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
This thing about looking for someone less different... It only really worked, he realized, if you were convinced that being you wasn't so bad in… — Nick Hornby
Are you the dart?" he said. "Are you the knife? The fuse?" She said (though he wasn't convinced): "My deane, my poppet, I am too… — Gregory Maguire
Reading it the night before, I'd wondered if it would be like that for me-if in one moment, I would finally understand her, know her,… — John Green
She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet. — Jane Austen
What do they know-all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have convinced themselves that… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
I am convinced by the events of the last few weeks that nefarious forces of people--unidentified but no less real--are threatening life as we know… — Christopher Moore
If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment -- assuming a certain very moderate amount… — Bertrand Russell
Pride is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed, that… — Jane Austen
I'm convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease. — Brandon Sanderson

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