Convincing Quotes

312 Convincing quotes by 276 unique authors

In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
It's much easier to be convincing if you care about your topic. Figure out what's important to you about your message and speak from the… — Nicholas Boothman
My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former… — William Banting
The most important 'speed' issue is often not technical but cultural. It's convincing everyone that the company's survival depends on everyone moving as fast as… — Bill Gates
I committed myself totally, fully, but I didn't succeed in convincing a majority of French... I didn't succeed in making the values we share win. — Nicolas Sarkozy
It is time to start going door to door and convincing our neighbours to vote for a clean-energy future. — Eban Goodstein
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are… — Baron de Montesquieu
The man that believes will obey; failure to obey is convincing proof that there is no true faith present. To attempt the impossible God must… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Here is my challenge. Name one ethical statement made, or one ethical action performed, by a believer that could not have been uttered or done… — Christopher Hitchens
Nonviolence seeks to â€˜winâ€™ not by destroying or even by humiliating the adversary, but by convincing [the adversary] that there is a higher and more… — Thomas Merton
It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence. — Kenneth Rexroth
Your biggest challenge as an entrepreneur is not concealing your idea from others or keeping your idea a secret, it is actually convincing people that… — Sean Parker
Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what… — Shane Claiborne
The CIA has a plot...they've used before to get rid of world leaders. Only problem...is convincing Hussein...to fly to Dallas. — Bill Hicks
Jeff Carver is a hard sf writer who gets it right-his science and his people are equally convincing. NEPTUNE CROSSING combines his strengths, from a… — Gregory Benford
God reminds us again and again that things between He and us are forever fixed. They are the rendezvous points where God declares to us… — Tullian Tchividjian
Thereâ€™s no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible, and therefore never even trying. — Max Tegmark
I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it. — Michael Behe
I found the most convincing part to be the working stiffs, the guys who have a modest home and kids who go to public schools.… — Jack Valenti
You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be back with the… — Priscilla Presley

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