Quotes About Conviction

I believe that one has to be convinced with what they are doing, and I have got to learn from every opportunity that has come my way.

I've always been like this - unless I'm a hundred per cent convinced, I just don't choose to be a part of the film.

It's not always about convincing your parents of what you want to do, but just saying, 'This is what I'm doing; this is what I love.'

I always find that I have to be emotionally on my character's side for it to be convincing.

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

I go about things I think is correct. It might not be, but I try to do it that way.

I have absolute faith in the correctness of my course.

My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.

Before Churchill had done anything else, he was a writer. He believed to the core that words matter. They count. They can change the world.

When I first played, I had the belief that I could go out there and win matches but when people saw me first I don't they had the belief. I had to be able to be able to prove, to tell them you can count on me.

Some guys may play around and say a couple of things, but if I say it, I mean it. I may laugh, it may be funny, but if I say I'm going to get you, I'm going to get you.

Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.

Courage doesn't come by doing what everybody else says. Courage does by what you know is right.

If you look for truth, you have to be courageous.

Jesus showed us how to be courageous and sacrificial while we die for our beliefs, not while we kill for them.

Writing is a conviction before it is a craft.

I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.

There are always going to be critics... and I have always had a rule: no matter how good the commentary is, or how bad the commentary is, it's more important that you do what you think is right.

It takes a special conviction to decide to go against the crowd and to know what is right and to act upon it.

I can work with skeptics - cynics are a little bit harder because they already have their mind made up. There's nothing that I'm going to say that's going to change that.

Faith is something we never discuss at the dinner table in my family, but I do believe in God.

I've never believed that the only way to make a dent is to be a table thumper.