Quotes About Conviction

It doesn't matter what people say or what the rules say or what you're supposed to do, you go after what's in your heart.

I have always given my 100 per cent to the characters I believed in.

I'll make the right decision, whichever one it is. I have to be 100 percent, not 95 or 99.

I'm trying not to put myself into anything I'm not 100 percent confident about.

If you're going to try to win an election, you can't be 80 percent. You can't say, I'm for what my Democratic opponent is, for but not quite so much of it.

I am far from a perfect pro-lifer.

I feel like young people, more than anyone in the country, always have their moral compass on perfectly straight.

I have to believe in the character to perform it.

I feel that confidence is the essence for a good performance.

When you see my performances, even people that you might have known, like Nicky Barnes in 'American Gangster,' you have to get over the fact that I look like Cuba Gooding, Jr. But once you find truth in the performance, if I'm doing my job right, you believe everything.

That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you.

Very rarely in the life of an actor and a performer do you do something you truly believe in, do you do something you are absolutely proud of.

When I've known something is right, the actual doing of it is not scary. It's like being onstage or performing. After it and before it, there might be a lot of fear, but the act of it is never scary for me.

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

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

I never have the nagging doubt of wondering whether perhaps I am wrong.

Half a century ago in this court I was sworn in as the Member of Parliament for George. And here I am today I am not better than General De Wet. I am not better than President Steyn. Like them I stand firm in my principles. I can do no different. So help me God.

The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.

Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and when the unification of Jews and Christians into the people of God will take place.

The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.

You may be GOD,...............but I am an ATHIEST !

Anyone can follow the crowd but only a true visionary will dare to stand up for what he/she believes in.

My child, what does it matter, if you are in the right? Always follow the truth without caring about the result. Very often you may have to suffer injustice or unpleasant consequences for holding to the truth; but you must not, under any circumstances, abandon it.