Convinced Quotes

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.
David Rockefeller

Life, Good, Sad

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
George Bernard Shaw

Means, Bible, Says

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
Benjamin Franklin

Mankind, Agree, Settle

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.
Ronald Reagan

Food, Medical, Long

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Themselves, Guilt, Judges

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
Albert Camus

Men, Death, Sincerity

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.
Johnny Depp

Nothing, Thought, Insecure

I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.
Ron Paul

Life, Peace, Best

If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
Harriet Tubman

Thousands, Slaves, Freed

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Dale Carnegie

Same, Opinion, Against

I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.
Hugo Chavez

Path, Possible, Socialism

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.
Barack Obama

Failure, America, Far

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Victor Hugo

Life, Happiness, Greatest

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
John Steinbeck

Eyes, Seen, Dogs

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
Bertrand Russell

Happiness, Time, Talk

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.
Paulo Coelho

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.
Charles R. Swindoll

Life, Live, Words

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
T. S. Eliot

Religion, Literature, Substitute

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.
Richard Cecil

Life, Good, Best

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
Bertrand Russell

Philosophy, Thoughts, Addiction

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
Ambrose Bierce

Failure, Person, Makes

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
Jane Austen

Love, Shall, Whom

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal

Others, Themselves, Found

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.
Benjamin Disraeli

Treat, Makes, Foreign

I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.
Charles Stanley

Time, May, Down

We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.
Theodore C. Sorensen

Faith, Religion, Freedom

The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.
Robert Anton Wilson

Stupid, Common, Accidental

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
Thucydides

War, Happy, Brave

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Samuel Johnson

Happiness, Hope, Long

It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.
Albert Barnes

Great, God, Truth

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