Quotes About Conviction

Beneath it all was a kind of faith.

Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.

Belittling others is no pastime for those convinced of their own standing. There is terror behind haughtiness. It takes a punishing impression of our own inferiority to leave others feeling that they aren't good enough for us.

History nowadays is not a matter of conviction. It's a performance. It's entertainment. And if it isn't, make it so.

If you know something is true, you don't need to convince anyone of it. If you are trying to convince anyone, it is probably yourself.

Less explanation is more convincing than more explanation.

If someone thinks you can help or heal them, and you think you can't, choose their faith over your doubt.

Everyone is continuously finding evidence to prove what they want to believe.

Making believe you know will get you farther than making believe you don't know.

Facts can be most persuasive.

I learned at that time, for an absolute certainty, that I did not believe in an intervening God, since I did not spend one second praying or trying to make a deal with God.

Never compromise. Not even in the face of Armageddon.

The things that are most popular are usually rubbish, stand up for what's important, not popular.

Let me show you firmness of my belief.

When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, "Where are your wounds?" and if I say I haven't any, he will say, "Was there nothing to fight for?" I couldn't face that question.

Denzel's quality, I think, is his faith. You have all the action in your head and you have to believe in it and just do it. That's what he does and that's what he taught me to do.

Posting dramatic charts or funny pictures is good and giving people smart reasons to believe what they already think is great.

The appreciation of a painting or a piece of music, for example, or even falling in love, is all about our subjectivity. But to decide that the entire universe operates in such a way, let alone to go to war because we are so convinced we are right that others must agree with us or die, that surely should demand a higher level of argument than 'It's true because I really, really feel it is.

If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction

No hay nada repartido de modo más equitativo en el mundo que la razón: todo el mundo está convencido de tener suficiente.

They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.

When the world tries to convince you of drought, trust in God's ability to care for you.

The Latin root of decide means "to cut off all possibility." So a person who actually made a true decision to accomplish something would have no alternative but to do what they decided.

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.