Best Convinced Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I am convinced that "all ladies are not the same". Some have pretty faces, others have beautiful characters. Some have facial make-ups, others have mental make-ups!”

Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.”

“My balls shrank in terror. I was convinced we were going to die.”

Balls Terror Convinced Die Going Shrank

Book:Apocalipsis Z: Los días oscuros

Source: Apocalipsis Z: Los días oscuros

“My usual instruction to students when they are preparing to write their examinations is "think before you answer the questions". I am convinced that some multiple choice answers could be so close that you might not know the very one that answers the question correctly! Such is life. To choose your suitable dreams, you must think well!”

Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“A man convinced against his will, stands opposed ever still. A man convinced he is right, gives the effort twice the fight.”

Effort Convinced Man Fight Right Will Against Stands Opposed

Author:Jeffrey Fry

“You are a mansion with infinite rooms, yet you've convinced yourself you have to live in the basement.”

Dream Rooms Convinced Mansion Basement

Author:Nitya Prakash

“There are those desperate times when the only thing that’s sustaining our belief is the absence of a more convincing belief.”

Faith Belief Confidence Convinced Fortitude Sustain

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“What you are convinced of determines what you stand for”

Truth Determine Convinced Stand

Author:Sunday Adelaja

“When I find that stubbornness continually overrides common sense regardless of the logic of my argument, it seems that the only effective solution is to tell them to go ahead and stick their finger in the socket. And what I find is that what my argument failed to solve, electricity does quite nicely.”

“The ancient sages used divine characters to create mythologies and scriptures to make them more believable. All scriptures are said to be the words of God so that people are convinced about their veracity and believe them.”

God Divine Ancient Convinced Scriptures Veracity Sages Mythologies

Book:Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth

Source: Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth

“I was entirely unconvinced about anything, except that some people were strong and attractive and could do what they wanted, and others were caught and disgraced.”

Power Rich Convinced Disgrace Classics Ww1 The Lost Generation

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The first thing I do when I come home is check the refrigerator for cats because I'm convinced that if one dies, my husband will hide it in there because I don't cook and so I won't see it. I do drink Cokes, though ,so technically he should hide the corpse in the oven. And now I need to start checking the oven.”

Ifs Needs Should Firsts Home Dies Drink Husband Cat Convinced Checks Cooks My Husband Coming Home Corpses Coke Refrigerators Ovens

Author:Jenny Lawson

“For whatever reason somebody can be convinced to buy a PC, it opens up a whole new market for all of us in the software business.”

Reason Whole Convinced Software

Author:Kevin O'Leary

“I'm a thigh-meat dude. Thigh is just the best meat - I don't get chicken breast. I think it's a publicity stunt that we've convinced people it's delicious.”

People Thinking Convinced Meat Breasts Chickens Delicious Publicity Thighs

Author:Patrice O'Neal

“I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.”

States Action United United States Military International Terrorism Convinced Military Action International Terrorism

Author:Barbara Lee

“I am convinced that the public, large majority of the Greek people, realize that policies pursued in the past and the market practices have to be changed, in order to improve the prospects of the Greek economy. So there is, I think, strong public support despite the increases in social tensions.”

People Thinking Past Order Strong Social Realizing Practice Support Economy Policy Changed Increase Majority Convinced Despite Greek Tension Pursued Prospects

Author:Lucas Papademos

“I am personally convinced - and I think the Greek people share this belief in a fundamental way - that we can achieve fiscal consolidation more effectively and we can restore competitiveness in a more fundamental and permanent way within the euro area than outside.”

People Thinking Way Belief Share Achieve Areas Fundamentals Convinced Permanent Greek Euro Competitiveness Consolidation

Author:Lucas Papademos

“The kids I talk to are convinced their generation will make the best music. And the greatest artists have yet to be discovered. I walk around with that thought every day.”

Kids Artist Walks Generations Convinced

Author:L.A. Reid

“The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don't think it's funny, but you're convinced that other people will think it is, well they won't.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Wells Important Materials Important Things Convinced

Author:Mo Rocca

“What I've become convinced makes a writer are the days you hate it, the days you'd rather stick those pencils in your eyes. Sometimes I almost punish myself - if I'm not going be able to write, I'm not going be able to do anything else. I just sit there and wait.”

Ifs Writing Sometimes Eye Able Hate Waiting Sticks Convinced Pencils

Author:Ron Rash

“I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past.”

Done Light Past Culture Method Convinced American Culture Archaeology

Book:Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality

Source: Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality

“All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind.”

People World Years Made War Effort Progress Mankind Prosperity Convinced Preserves War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I Contributing Through The Years

Author:Eisaku Sato

“I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.”

Ifs Has Beens Actors Sports Fans Calling Hollywood Athlete Convinced Could Have Been Sports Fan Pro Athlete

Author:Jamie Foxx

“I'm convinced that Sanford and Son shows middle-class America a lot of what they need to know.”

Knows Needs Shows America Class Middle Son Convinced Middle Class

Author:Redd Foxx

“I'm convinced my cockroaches have military training, I set off a roach bomb - they diffused it.”

Military Training Convinced Bombs Cockroaches Roaches Military Training

Author:Jay London

“I am convinced the next major attack against the United States may well be conducted by people with Asian or African faces, not the ones that many Americans are alert to.”

People Wells May States Faces Next United United States Majors Convinced Asian

Author:George Tenet

“We all recognize that Colorado and our nation have a long and storied tradition of gun ownership for hunting, outdoor recreation and self-defense. However, I am not convinced that combat weapons are necessarily part of that heritage.”

Long Self Nations Weapons Gun Tradition Defense Convinced Combat Heritage Hunting Ownership Self Defense Recreation Colorado Gun Ownership Outdoor Recreation

Author:Mark Udall

“I am convinced that it is the light and the way.”

Way Light Convinced

Author:George C. Williams

“My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and interrupted her. They thought I was cute so they offered me a commercial role. My mom was skeptical and a bit nervous about the child actor thing, but I was extremely bossy and convinced them I wanted to try it.”

Trying Children Two Wanted Actors Bits Half Roles Cry Mom My Mom Convinced Nervous Ran Cute Auditions Skeptical Interrupted Bossy Child Actors

Author:Mae Whitman

“I am convinced that we Christ-followers need an understanding of playfulness if we are going to take sanctification by the Holy Spirit seriously.”

Ifs Needs Spirit Understanding Christ Beauty Holy Convinced Holy Spirit Followers Sanctification Playfulness

Author:Calvin Seerveld

“I am convinced that what has the greatest meaning for us is what we uncover for ourselves.”

Self Esteem Convinced Esteem Self Respect

Author:Elizabeth O'Connor

“There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.”

Ifs Made Next Decision Mouths Opposites Convinced Hello Right Decision

Author:Rich Lowry

“My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.”

Men Running Roles Cutting Wife Childhood Female Convinced Adolescence Subordinates

Book:In praise of imperfection: my life and work

Source: In praise of imperfection: my life and work

“Every time I do a play, it's as if I've never done one before. I'm always confused. I always am convinced I'm going to be fired. I'm like, 'I don't remember how to act. I don't know how to do this.' And, it's just a very slow process, and then, all of a sudden, it's just there one day. I still don't understand how it happens.”

Ifs Knows Stills Done Play Happens Remember Process Know How One Day Convinced Confused

Author:Cristin Milioti

“Well, I am now convinced there is no kind of fear or anxiety anyone has to live with.”

Wells Kind Anxiety Convinced

Author:Ricky Williams

“When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?”

War Mankind Difficulty Agree Convinced Compromise Settling Resolution Anti War Antiwar Vietnam War Peace War Great War Win Win Horror Of War Arbitration

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“I'm totally convinced I can write the perfect pop song.”

Writing I Can Song Perfect Pops Convinced Pop Song

Author:Moon Unit Zappa

“I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.”

Thinking Humans Use Age Building Materials Capable Edges Surface Convinced Human Life Dull Scratches Richness Polished Absorbing

Book:Peter Zumthor

Source: Peter Zumthor

“I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.”

World Way Sadness Convinced Compromise

Book:how to save your own life

Source: how to save your own life

“The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever more dangerous. Jesus had to work on the perilous confines of reason and religion; and a step to the right or left might place him within the grasp of the priests of the superstition, a bloodthirsty race, as cruel and remorseless as the being whom they represented as the family God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob, and the local God of Israel. That Jesus did not mean to impose himself on mankind as the son of God, physically speaking, I have been convinced by the writings of men more learned than myself in that lore.”

“Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree (for all forbid us to steal, murder, plunder, or bear false witness), and that we should not intermeddle with the particular dogmas in which all religions differ, and which are totally unconnected with morality.”

Should Reading Interest Moral Particular Bears Morality Reflection Murder Agree Convinced Stealing Observation Witness Dogma Plunder False Witness

Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.”

Humans Convinced Human Relations Human Relationships

Author:Franz Kafka

“I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy. They understand that these values are the hope of the world.”

People World Law Values Opportunity Responsibility Moral Democracy Concepts Majority Convinced Enterprise Rule Of Law Free Enterprise Moral Responsibility

Author:Richard Lugar

“Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just”

Hands Spirituality Individual Causes Convinced Ruthless Hand In Hand Single Mindedness

Book:In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo

Source: In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo

“The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.”

Moral Dangerous Convinced Rectitude

Author:Daniel Hannan

“In my teenage years I was put off the idea of a career in flying, because I'd convinced myself that you had to be a boffin with degrees in maths and physics, which were my weakest subjects.”

Years Ideas Careers Subjects Degrees Math Convinced Physics Flying Teenage Teenage Years

Author:Bruce Dickinson

“I have to phrase this perfectly: I'm just not convinced that the attention we give to creating what we think of as a character isn't actually quite often the means by which an actor overcomes his own terror of standing there onstage and creating a mask to hide behind.”

Thinking Giving Mean Character Actors Behinds Attention Creating Standing Overcoming Terror Convinced Phrases Mask Standing There

Author:Stephen Dillane

“If you feel uncomfortable on stage, you can very easily descend into a sort of abyss, convinced you're the worst actor ever, that you're a disgrace to the profession, that you're a disgrace to yourself. It's an awful feeling.”

Ifs Feels Feelings Actors Worst Stage Convinced Profession Awful Uncomfortable Abyss Disgrace

Author:Stephen Dillane

“By reflecting a little on this subject I am almost convinced that those numberless small Circuses we see on the moon are the works of the Lunarians and may be called their Towns.”

May Littles Subjects Moon Towns Convinced Circus Reflecting

Author:William Herschel

“Now a confirmed atheist, I've become convinced of the enormous contribution that Christian evangelism makes in Africa: sharply distinct from the work of secular NGOs, government projects and international aid efforts. These alone will not do. Education and training alone will not do. In Africa Christianity changes people's hearts. It brings a spiritual transformation. The rebirth is real. The change is good.”

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