Quotes About Conviction

Whatever. Become a priest. You wouldn't be bad at it with all your scruples, your morality, your knowledge of people and of everything. The fact that you don't believe in any gods shouldn't be a problem—I don't know many priests who do.

They weren't lying. They firmly believed it all. Which doesn't change the facts.

While public opinion might sway back and forth, right and wrong do not.

He did, however, put in me the ability to make a decision and then make it right.

When I make a decision, I will stand behind it. My energy will go into making the decision. I will waste none on second thoughts. My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement.

Reason can only be stretched so far, but faith has no limits. The only limit to your realization of tomorrow is the doubt to which you hold fast today.

My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement.

THE FOURTH DECISION FOR SUCCESS I have a decided heart.

I will not waste time on second thoughts. My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement.

Our fundamental economic beliefs, which we have elevated from a conviction based on observation to an unquestioned truism, is that the free market is the best of all economic systems—the freer the better. Our generation has seen the decisive victory of free-market principles over planned economies. So we stick with this belief, largely oblivious to emerging evidence that while free markets beat planned economies, there may be room for a modification that is even better.

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People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

our nation's challenges do not stem from the church's inability to convince unbelievers to behave like believers. Our challenges stem from the church's inability to inspire believers to behave like believers.

We begin selling ourselves on what we want to do rather than what we ought to do. We listen to ourselves until we believe our own lies, and the we opt for happiness.

Outsiders aren't about to take our faith seriously as long as they wonder if we do.

Vision is a clear mental picture of what could be, fueled by the conviction that it should be.

VISIONEERING = INSPIRATION + CONVICTION + ACTION + DETERMINATION + COMPLETION

Your beliefs shape your attitudes!

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.

How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic?

He never made a statement unless he was certain of its truth

I made a conscious decision to believe. Every day. I keep deciding to believe.

A little belief in something always helps.

My mistake was to lie in his arms moist-eyed with tenderness and gratitude, when the correct stance would have been a certain detachment, an irony, as if to imply that he would have to love me to a much higher standard to convince me that I had to take him seriously. I should have found such a tactic odious, but now I see that it is sometimes necessary to meet withdrawal with withdrawal, dismissal with dismissal.