Quotes About Conviction

What I've found, and what Scripture tells us, is that your faith is not something on the side, something you carry with you - it is inherently who you are.

When your heart tells you something, you have to go with it.

I don't have the sort of temperament that submits to Christianity or Islam.

Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.

Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.

The Progressives] outlook was activist and optimistic, not fatalist and despondent. The distinctive characteristic of the Progressives was their conviction that social evils would not remedy themselves and that it was foolhardy to wait passively for time's cure. As Herbert Croly put it, they did not believe that the future would take care of itself. Neither should we.

I am not alone in the conviction that real, lasting national security can best be obtained through complete transparency of government, business, and other facets of society, and this includes open access to all of the many available types of information.

That is some gift you have, Mr. Sloane… what you did to those jurors. I don't know how you did it, how you convinced them. They didn't want to believe you. I saw it when they came back. They had their minds made up." A tear rolled down her cheek; she disregarded it. "Well, consider this, Mr. Sloane. My Emily is dead, and my grandson will never have his mother. That is something you can't change with your words.

It is better that ten guilty men go free than one innocent man be wrongfully convicted.

And that was when I came to realize that what is important is not what is true, but what people believe is true and what they're willing to do for that belief.

William Blackstone stated, 'It is better that ten guilty men go free than one innocent man be wrongfully convicted.

It is not a system without faults, but as my fellow jurist William Blackstone stated, 'It is better that ten guilty men go free than one innocent man be wrongfully convicted.

It is not a system without faults, but as my fellow jurist William Blackstone stated, 'It is better that ten guilty men go free than one innocent man be wrongfully convicted.' "Mr.

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.

One living sermon is worth a hundred explanations.

A true fanatic, his promptings were reasons enough for his actions.

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

Leowin: Don't worry Luthiel. 'Truth's existence never depended upon belief.

Always remember, you don't need bad people to get bad deeds done. All you need is somebody clever enough to convince good people that a nefarious policy is actually the greatest thing since the pop-up toaster. As I have frequently observed, most of the serious evils in the world have been done in the name of good.

To fool somebody else, you have to fool yourself first.

The [Israelis] believed - they were possessed of an absolute certainty and conviction - that 'terrorists' were in Chatila. How could I explain to them that the terrorists had left, that the terrorists had worn Israeli uniforms, that the terrorists had been sent into Chatila by Israeli officers, that the victims of the terrorists were not Israelis but Palestinians and Lebanese?

The human spirit will not invest itself in a compromise.

Faith was the excuse you used if you didn't have a good argument.