Best Convince Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I spent the first 25 years of my life trying to convince everyone that I was a pop star.”

“On the whole, we need to stop pretending women don't like masculine men, and women need to stop trying to convince themselves otherwise.”

“As an actor, I should be able to work in any kind of film, even preachy ones, and convince you about that character. I should be willing to go into any box.”

“I have a policy before I get out of bed, I convince myself that I'm going to have a positive mental attitude all day, and I never capitulate on that rule.”

“My own schooldays convince me that I would not send a child of mine to be educated by a grinning monk any more than I would send him to a mullah in Iran.”

“The modern election campaign is created by power in order to convince the realm that all is well, and, further, that its inhabitants are being presented with new information and a clear choice.”

“In a gesture to moderate Republicans, Reagan put Bush on his '80 ticket, and Bush recognized that the Reagan crowd was rapidly becoming an overwhelming majority in the party. So he adjusted his views, served Reagan loyally and spent much of his vice presidency using his stature to convince conservative leaders they could trust him.”

“It is difficult to make movies on your own terms and also to make a film and convince somebody to have faith in it.”

“I feel it's very important for an actor to believe in the character that he/she is playing and do full justice to it in order to convince others that you are the character you are portraying.”

“We have to convince mainland China that a free and democratic Taiwan is more in China's interest than reunification.”

“You've got to lie skillfully to get elected, because you've got to convince a whole zoo of self-involved ciphers that you've got every one of their self-serving, solipsistic interests at heart.”

“It's not difficult to convince UEFA or FIFA that, with an independent Catalonia, Barca could play in a major league like the French one or others. But I think that the most intelligent thing would be to maintain the Clasico.”

“I have to really convince myself to buy something online.”

“The way to convince people not to vote for Ukip is to make a positive case for voting Conservative.”

“I've always gone to gigs; I remember before I passed my driving test I'd convince various family members or friends' parents to take us to Dundee or Edinburgh to see James or A-ha.”

“As an actor, I need to convince the audience that the character that I'm playing is real, and the situation that this character is in is also real.”

“All it took was one good role to convince producers all over again that I could act.”

“Sometimes whatever you say to players is not enough to convince them your choice is the right one.”

“When I started this business, my job was to sell people on my brand and convince them to embrace it in a way that made sense to them.”

“I have already told Vermaelen to come to Napoli 10 times. The city is magnificent and even Benitez asked me to convince Vermaelen to come here.”

“I will always try to give my best and convince the coach that I should play.”

“You could probably convince me that North Jersey and South Jersey should be two separate states. They're just so different.”

“We can do it all and have it all. That's what I want young women to know. Make their own music. If nobody's making music for them, make your own. Do what you are passionate about and don't let anybody or anything stop you or convince you that you are not worthy.”

“As an actor, you want convince the audience that you can do different things. So, if I have to run in slow motion, I am more than happy to romance.”

“I am not a person who is going to convince players to stay or not stay.”

“Now when something comes up, I really give my body time to heal up. I convince myself it's going to be okay.”

“When you get into the NFL, man, there's not too many words that can convince you to do your job better.”

“For a big club like Manchester United, if a player does not want to play for a club like Manchester United, even in the long term, I don't think it makes sense to convince him to change his mind.”

“I don't have to convince anybody to do anything. I'm not in the head of any of my team-mates.”

“If you are going to try and convince somebody to travel, do it with a small map - the distances look like nothing on a small map.”

“The truth is, when you make movies, you have to learn how to lie. You have to convince people to give you money and you pretend they'll get double, triple or 10 times as much.”

“It was not easy to convince someone to put their hard-earned money into my work. But if we have the talent and confidence and if the producers are confident of your work, it is not difficult to get a producer.”

“I have learnt a lot from my brother and he too has learnt a lot from me. It has been a wonderful journey for both of us. We convince each other all the time with our view points and finally work as a team and not as individuals.”

“You can see it with social media and things like that, back in the day it was harder to convince people that the police are wrong, which sounds crazy, but that's how it was back then.”

“It's taken me quite some time to convince people that I can do shades of grey, and I've finally broken that ground.”

“There's nothing like getting caught flat-footed in an emergency to convince us to better prepare for the next one.”

“It will be very hard to convince everyone in the world to handle their plastics responsibly, but what we humans are very good in, is inventing technical solutions to our problems.”

“I think 'Doctor Who' is the greatest idea television has ever had, and our job is to convince the rest of the world.”

“At one point, I asked myself whether I was having fun with the national team, or whether I was just out to convince critics.”

“I think what IBM is excellent at is using their sales and marketing infrastructure to convince people who have asymmetrically less knowledge to pay for something.”

“I think for me, as a gay person, I can convince a lot more people to be for gay marriage by not screaming at them and berating them and embarrassing them and belittling them, but by showing them that we're all exactly the same.”

“The whole idea of deterrence is to convince your enemy that you are willing and able to make it so painful for them to continue on a threatening or bellicose course that they change their behavior.”

“If I can convince you that I'm going to beat you up, and you believe me, that's your fault.”

“What people think of you doesn't matter, because I believe anything's possible. No one's going to convince me I'm not capable of living up to my full potential, because I've obsessed over that idea. The universe wants me to be great for me.”

“When you convince sci-fi fans you've done something cool, you get them in huge numbers.”

“The same evidence that is convincing to one person may not convince another.”

“The success of one film may convince the filmmaker to try repeat his successes and get into a competition with himself. One cannot dwell on periodic successes. You have to look at it as a temporary, passing thing.”

“I'm a novelist. I'm not a crusader, and I'm not an editorial writer. And I'm not writing fiction to convince anybody of anything.”

“I get offered a lot of parts where I want to say, 'Why don't you just hire a model? Don't hire an actor.' I'm trying to convince people I'm a real actor, not some mannequin.”

“I would do a Byrds tour or a Byrds record in a minute. I miss that band now. I've tried to convince Roger over and over to do it, but he's not interested. Music isn't something you can legislate into being.”

“The calmer and more well-ordered my desktop is, the more I can convince myself I'm on top of things.”

“Convince the investor that you guys are moving fast and that this isn't some long slog... you're thinking about it like a startup where you can move fast and make mistakes.”

“Never underestimate the power of confidence. If you believe you're the dopest thing walking, you might convince people of the same just because you're so headstrong about it as a fact.”

“How do you convince somebody to host a stranger for the weekend? That's not a trivial thing. It's not something I think you can throw technology at, marketing at, or sales at. We threw design at it because that's all we knew, and in doing so, I feel like we brought a human touch to it, which is so needed.”

“You have to convince those around you that you're worth their time and energy, and that can be really taxing.”

“I keep trying to convince people that I'm OK to wrestle, and I think that's probably the hard part. A lot of times I'm trying to convince myself, too, that I can wrestle. It's really hard, because the concussion issue is very subjective, and that's the part that a lot of people don't understand.”

“Before I saw 'Tootsie' with an audience, I thought, 'No one is going to believe this could convince anyone he's a woman.'”

“Men, who certainly possess not only the savvy but also the know-how to be funny, for some reason, are just not. I began to notice this at a pretty young age, and unfortunately, a lifetime of living - and not a little bit of regret - hasn't done much to convince me otherwise.”

“The most powerful way to convince the interviewer that you can do the job is to show how much you already know about the industry, the company, and the products/services of the company. In other words, enchant the interviewer with how much you already know.”

“What qualified me to write about Israel was that I wanted to; it took no time to convince myself. The only reservation I had was about eaven: I wanted to write about the Jewish heaven but did not feel qualified because I did not and do not believe in 'it,' though I should.”

“Terrorists convince thousands of people to kill themselves in the name of God. I can't convince two of my friends to help me move.”

“It's not my job to convince people that Koresh was the final messenger or had this final message.”

“We used to have to convince people we were funny, and it didn't always work.”

“Liberals spend a whole lot of time trying to convince us they love teachers, but dig even skin deep into the matter, and it becomes evident that liberals hate teachers.”

“For most companies, the hard thing is making the product work well enough to convince a single person at a time to switch to it.”

“The novel, as a genre, was once considered a diversion every bit as frivolous as Facebook, but over the years, we've managed to convince ourselves that reading fiction is as important to our mental digestion as fresh fruits and vegetables are to the processes that take place a little further down.”

“You can't convince someone else - whether it's a potential employer, a loan officer at the car dealership, or someone you've been crushing on - that you're amazing and terrific if you don't actually think you are.”

“Evil exists. Evil is real. One of the hallmarks of evil is that it seeks to convince its victims that it exists 'out there.'”

“However, people need to understand that it ain't that deep to try and convince people of what your persona is. You are who you are, and what you are will show in time. What you aren't can be hidden, but eventually it will come to light. Long story short: rappers should never take themselves too seriously.”

“My challenge is to convince Ontarians that the old world is not coming back.”

“I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.”

“In fact when Sweet Honey was ten years old it was too big for me to run, and I knew it, but I ran it for another thirteen years because I couldn't convince other people to really do it. And this year, I'm not running it.”

“I had to fight like hell to convince people I was beautiful in my own Polish half-breed way.”

“Obama didn't just share in class - he pontificated. He knew better than everyone else in the room, including the teachers. Or maybe even he knew he didn't know, but knew that the leader of the free world had to be able to convince others that he did.”

“There was no need to convince me to come to Juve because being here is a dream that has become a reality.”

“The less you know about me, the easier it is to convince you that I am that character on screen.”

“I am a proud Montrealer. Jobs will take me where they take me, but nothing will ever be able to convince me to leave my home.”

“Teaching and writing, to me, is really just seduction; you go to where people are and you find something that they're interested in and you try and use that to convince them that they should be interested in what you have to say.”

“The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.”

“It's important not to try to convince others of your own reasons for change. Finding the reason why they should want to support your efforts is the key to effective change management.”

“Without the ability to criticize unjust laws in powerful symbolic ways, we can't change them. And the point of a democracy is that people should be able to convince other people to change a law.”

“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.”

“There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.”

“I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.”

“You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.”

“Using the power of protein engineering and evolution, we can convince enzymes to take what they do poorly and do it really well.”

“There are certainly days that we can convince ourselves in Washington that everybody's talking about one thing, and then I'll go home to my district and realize that everybody's actually talking about something different.”

“The thing is to convince people that a part not written for a Latina woman - or maybe not even written for a woman at all - is a female part. You convince them you can do it.”

“Until David Bellavia tells me to shut up, I'm going to keep trying to convince him that our country needs him.”

“People would not take me seriously. They would say: Your father was a genius in marketing, what can you do? I had to convince them, literally with folded hands, to trust me.”

“I want people to be able to influence themselves. We convince ourselves, and that allows us to convince others.”

“First, I have to read something and find it interesting and like the story. If I don't understand it fully, but there is something in there that is interesting, then it takes a director to convince me. If he can't do that, then I don't go with it. It doesn't matter where the project comes from.”

“Too many times we just think about our ideas, and we let people convince us not to do it.”

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

“Progressives think the way to win is mobilizing and convince people to vote for something.”

“If you don't have the right culture, in the difficult moments, the tree is going to shake, so my job is to convince everybody that this is how we are going to live, and if you are going to be part of this organisation it has to be in these terms and in this way.”

“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.”

“As a viewer, I decide when I see the promo of a film whether I want to watch it or not. No amount of marketing can convince me otherwise.”

“I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.”

“No one will ever convince me that the word of God is not true.”