Winning Over Quotes

Don't try to win over the haters; you are not a jackass whisperer.

Non-violence is backed by the theory of soul-force in which suffering is courted in the hope of ultimately winning over the opponent. But what happens when such an attempt fail to achieve the object? It is here that soul-force has to be combined with physical force so as not to remain at the mercy of tyrannical and ruthless enemy.

Good behavior wins even an enemy.

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

If you can make someone laugh who's dead set against you, that's the first step to winning them over to your side.

Basic principles: no matter what, no matter when, no matter who... any man has a chance to sweep any woman off her feet. He just needs the right broom.

To attract people, to win over people to that which I have realized as being true, that is called propaganda.

Never take your critics lightly. You must always try to win them over by your hard work. Don't brush them off.

True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.

There've been periods where I had to convince the audience or win them over.

If you capture someone's heart, you will eventually get his hands and feet as well.

I know how to win people over if things aren't going my way.

After about 15 minutes, you feel that you're winning them over.

I am not well educated or bright enough to be politically clued in, but I hope in the film that I'm going to shock a few people, win a lot of people over.

I don't want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he seems rather unsuccessful at winning people over who don't already agree with him.

I enjoy dating. I love first dates. I think they're incredibly fascinating studies in human psychology. When you sit down across from someone on a first date and things are going alright, you talk objectives. We want to win each other over, so how do you win someone over? You have to put the best foot forward.

You do your best [ on auditions] and sometimes you win 'em over and sometimes you don't.

Nonviolence seeks to ‘win’ not by destroying or even by humiliating the adversary, but by convincing [the adversary] that there is a higher and more certain common good than can be attained by bombs and blood. Nonviolence, ideally speaking, does not try to overcome the adversary by winning over [them], but to turn [them] from an adversary into a collaborator by winning [them] over.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

We hope to win over new listeners who would normally never listen to an Aly & AJ record. That's our greatest expectation we've set for ourselves.

Winning supporters over can only really be achieved by what you do, not what you say. It's no use just smiling and shaking hands and getting quoted with witty one-liners.

With Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara, it was better to be friends and make them smile rather than wind them up.

When it comes down to it, it's all about good music and what makes people react. That wins over everything else.

There's no point just telling the French that you can cook, the proof is in the pudding; if you bake them something delicious then you'll win them over.

There is no possible negotiation with these killers. Our aim is to win over terrorism. Only by being firm we can stop terrorism. We must be firm fighting the terrorists and opposing the final aims they want to achieve.