Convincing Quotes

History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.

What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses.

Conduct is more convincing than language.

What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?

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 God wants us to do.

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

Jesus was himself the one convincing and permanent miracle.

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

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

Instead of convincing people who are opposed to your message, spend your time finding people who are already predisposed to it.

People think they know all these things about other people, and if you ask them why they think they know that, it'd be hard for them to be convincing.

The toughest thing about raising kids is convincing them that you have seniority.

Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind.

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.

I've seen more convincing wigs on William Shatner.

The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.

I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.

The way God has been thought of for thousands of years is no longer convincing; if anything is dead, it can only be the traditional thought of God.

Selling is never about convincing. It is always about helping.

I loved Molly. Or at least I told myself I did. Or, if what I felt for her was not love, it was at least a plausible imitation, a convincing substitute.

I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condition.

I hope I'm always convincing when I act!

Ultimately the most challenging thing, always, is to just be convincing

The difference between Martin Sheen and George W. Bush is Martin Sheen is actually convincing when he acts like he's president.

I used to dream of true love; now I'm open to false, but convincing.

Sports executives are great at convincing themselves whatever they believe is right and simply has to be.

Haymitch said you'd take a lot of convincing.

I don't have any training in dance. I can convince an audience that I know how to dance because I'm a convincing actor.

Success is the most convincing talker in the world.

Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.

It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.

Words are easy. It's convincing the heart that's hard.

If the only thing that you are good at is convincing others that you are good, then being in biz with you is bad experience.

I always find that I have to be emotionally on my character's side for it to be convincing.

The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.

...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.