Quotes About Conviction

And therefore, according as any one is more anxious in demanding a reason, by so much will he be the firmer in preserving his faith.9

Never yield to pressure, only to principle.

The more you clarify your position and defend it against attack, the more committed you become to it. The

Tänan, ütlesin [Merlin]. Nüüd olen ma kõigeks valmis. Sa võid nii enesekindluse huvides väita, ütles Vialle, aga ära seda kunagi usu.

I waver—in the dark—between the observation (but is it entirely accurate?) that I'm unhappy only by moments, by jerks and surges, sporadically, even if such spasms are close together—and the conviction that deep down, in actual fact, I am continually, all the time, unhappy since maman's death.

Hamilton has often been extolled as the exponent of a rational foreign policy based on cool calculations of national self-interest. But his April 14 letter expressed his unswerving conviction that nations, transported by strong emotion, often miscalculate their interests: "Wars oftener proceed from angry and perverse passions than from cool calculations of interest.

The young man who had worked so hard to ingratiate himself with his superiors in the British Army was suddenly breathing fire. Washington was always reluctant to sign on to any cause, because when he did so, his commitment was total.

Once he had made up his mind, however, he was no longer troubled by doubts and pursued his vision with undeviating faith.

I would do what I thought best.

That was for damn sure.

plant. She said, "OK, time out. Convince

They may never be able to prove it.

But the smart money says we should act like I'm right. Just in case." "Like Pascal's Wager.

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Standing up for what you believe in comes has a price but backing down exacts a toll that your soul never stops paying

He's firmly, irrevocably, unambiguously convinced that you're somebody worth dying for.

But ultimately the truth is this: Faith is only as good as the one in whom it's invested.

People will die for their religious beliefs if they sincerely believe they're true, but people won't die for their religious beliefs if they know their beliefs are false.

Faith is only as good as the one in whom it's invested.

The evidence of my life lay before me, and I was unconvinced.

Once torched by truth, a little thing like faith is easy.

Could a person believe so strongly one way, yet take the opposite route?

Truth is what people want to believe and nothing more.

Truth is only what people want to believe and nothing more.