A Quote by Milton Friedman

Anybody who was easily converted was not worth converting.

Milton Friedman

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Milton Friedman
American - Economist
July 31, 1912 - November 16, 2006

And thus flowed the current of life. The seeds of the silverbell were converted into squirrel; and squirrels were converted into foxes. Everything edible, from mice and chipmunks to roots and berries and apples was converted into bear. And bear and his tracks are converted into wonder and adventure for man.

Harvey Broome

Converting liberals is always a great thing. It makes every day worth living.

Rush Limbaugh

nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.

Charles Bukowski

The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others. The creed whose legitimacy is most easily challenged is likely to develop the strongest proselytizing impulse.

Eric Hoffer

I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The audience usually has to be with you, I'm afraid. I always regarded myself as not even preaching to the converted, I was titillating the converted.

Tom Lehrer

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

Blaise Pascal

...mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.

William Gaddis

Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three last have never converted any.

Frederick William Faber

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.

Oscar Wilde

My mother converted, my mom converted to Judaism.

Trevor Noah

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.

Charles W. Chesnutt

Even like as St. Paul was converted, just so are all others converted; for we all resist God, but the Holy Ghost draws the will of mankind, when he pleases, through preaching.

Martin Luther

I came from a tradition where souls were a theological reality, not a faith reality. Souls were for saving, not for communing. Souls were for converting and, once they were converted, they were to be left alone. Souls were too mystical, too subjective, too ambiguous, too risky, too... well, you know - New Age-ish.

Mike Yaconelli

People talk about preaching to the converted, which is total codswallop rubbish. There is no such thing as being converted forever - absolutely no such thing.

Vanessa Redgrave

I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.

C. J. Mahaney

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