Quotes About Conviction

I am not interested in standing for what I believe in, but in standing for the truth. I and my conscience are liars. God's law is truth.

But how did you convince people to come out of hiding when hiding was all they had known?

I have never been one for putting my faith in odds. I put my faith in higher things.

je découvrais que les adultes n'était pas conformes à ce qu'ils disaient être. Qu'ils agissaient par rapport à la société, non par conviction profonde. C'est ce que, toute ma vie, je reprocherai aux un et aux autres: agir sans croyance.

Yes, I am a tad obsessive. For a nonreligious woman, this is my faith.

Even though from childhood I had been taught that idolatry of the Nation is almost better than reverence for God and humanity, I believe I have outgrown that teaching, and it is my conviction that my countrymen will truly gain their India by fighting against the education which teaches them that a country is greater than the ideals of humanity.

What I knew personally to be true had come to seem unrelated to the process of persuading others. I did not, any longer, want to persuade anyone of anything.

I did not, any longer, want to persuade anyone of anything.

Your failures keep returning to you, while your successes are something you always have to convince yourself of.

We understand that we're going to be outspent. But we still think we can win decisively because there's some things money can't buy. Among these are votes.

I'm not taking votes based on getting re-elected.

I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?'

There are things that matter more than your election. That may take difficult votes, may take career-ending votes for people, but if we aren't willing to do that, then we're not going to move forward.

I was elected by people voting Labour! The idea that you come to Parliament and the first thing you do is that you're hand in hand with Tories and Liberals - I can't understand it! I came here and I made my mind up that I wasn't going to collaborate with the people I'd fought against in the election. It wasn't a difficult thing.

Religious people know deep down that that is the most vulnerable area of their lives, and when others question it, they are liable to hit out and feel insulted. You know it is absolutely without proof, yet people still commit themselves totally to this belief. They cannot refute it because it is so central to their lives.

There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move - and he, in turn, waits for you.

In the city, I wake bolt upright in the small hours, convinced that intruders are marauding through our apartment despite Swiss bank-style security arrangements.

I'm a Catholic, and not because I just happened to wake up as a Catholic. I'm not going to be persuaded on any topic, especially not that.

Do and act on what you believe to be right, and you'll wake up the next morning feeling good about yourself.

I do what I feel is right. I am not scared to walk on the new path and take risk.

It's the only way I think I'm ever going to walk away from the game, is to go ahead and say I'm going to, and then I've got to. There's no turning back now - win, lose or draw.

Pearl Jam doesn't just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it.

I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.

If I had doubts, I would've never walked into the ring.