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• 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.

  Zig Ziglar

  Attitude, Life Is Too Short, Optimistic

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• Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, People, Trying

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• If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Men, Doe

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.357, Penguin

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• 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

  Carl Sagan

  Death, Faith, Atheist

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• Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Believe, Nba

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.75, Crown Business

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• To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Truth, Errors, Path

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.119, Hackett Publishing

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• 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.

  Don Young

  Responsibility, Cookies, Want

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• 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.

  Henri Nouwen

  Blessed, Convince Us, Broken

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• 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.

  Fuzzy Zoeller

  Knows, Ifs

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• We convince by our presence.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Life, Time

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.323, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Harry S. Truman

  Political, Ems, Politics

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• Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

  Fiona Apple

  People, Feel Good, Choices

  Interview with Sasha Frere-Jones, sfj.abstractdynamics.org. October 04, 2005.

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• I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

  Muhammad Ali

  Greatness, Accomplish Nothing, Marketing

  Twitter post from Mar 28, 2010

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• 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.

  E. W. Howe

  Education, Teenage, Teaching

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• 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.

  Jonathan Swift

  Optimism, Quality, Share

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• The easiest way to convince my kids that they don't really need something is to get it for them.

  Joan Collins

  Kids, Needs, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Mother, Jobs, Wall

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• It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.

  Bela Lugosi

  Years, Play, Roles

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

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Work, Going Away, Convincing

  Thomas Love Peacock (1856). “Maid Marian, and Crotchet Castle”, p.222

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• My thing is trying to convince them they can win.

  Dick Butkus

  Football, Winning, Nfl

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• If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em.

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  Sherry Argov

  Confusion, Confusing, Ems

  Sherry Argov, “Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl - A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship”

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• Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

  Federico Fellini

  Hype, Awkward, Misery

  Federico Fellini, Damian Pettigrew (2003). “I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.

  Vivien Leigh

  Knows, I Can

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• 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.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Jobs, Moving, Justice

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• A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

  George Washington

  True Friend, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.39, Rowman & Littlefield

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