Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his/her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.
Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe
Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves
To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.
I can't convince you to put the drink down if you're an alcoholic, you have to want to do that. I can't convince you to stop eating the cookies when you're a diabetic. You have to do that. And that takes responsibility.
As those who are chosen, blessed, broken, and given, we are called to live our lives with a deep inner joy and peace. It is the life of the Beloved, lived in a world constantly trying to convince us that the burden is on us to prove that we are worthy of being loved.
Everybody saying you can't do this, you can't do that. I don't know why. Guess if you listen to it, you can convince yourself of it.
We convince by our presence.
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.
Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.
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.
The easiest way to convince my kids that they don't really need something is to get it for them.
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.
It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
My thing is trying to convince them they can win.
The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.
Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.
I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.
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.
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
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