Quotes About Conviction

because love can come, if you believe in it and behave as if it exists. That was the case, too, with free will; with perhaps, fath of any sort; and love was a sort of faith, was it not?

The mention of God made Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni frown. In his experience, people were always claiming that God agreed with them even when there was little or no evidence that this was the case.

How many of us dig our own graves, thought William. We dig them with vigour and determination, unaware of the implications, but with all the conviction of those who do not really know what they are doing, who are impervious to the dangers that others can see so clearly.

You were looking for somebody, and there was somebody, and you would convince yourself that this random person was what you were really looking for in the first place.

There were times when life's problems were convincingly outweighed by its possibilities, and this, she felt, was one.

people decided what they thought and would not be moved, not even by the most patient, the most rational argument.

there is faith and faith. One form of faith is actual practice—the rituals and so on—the other form of faith involves actually believing in it.

Although she had only started being a detective, Precious was well aware that you had to be able to show people something if you wanted them to believe it.

But there were many things that one did not really believe that one did not want to disbelieve, just in case they might be true – which they clearly were not, of course.

Do not be afraid of people who lurk in the shadows. Stand up for what you believe in. The people in the shadows are no match for people who are not afraid of light.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failures certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn't matter, He believes in you…

take away this remaining doubt that, if it does not become a certainty, will turn into remorse.

Dying for something is easy because it is associated with glory. Living for something is the hard thing. Living for something extends beyond fashion, glory, or recognition. We live for what we believe.

We must, however, reaffirm what we know to be true, even when we don't feel it to be true. This will help us to live more by faith than by feelings.

WHEN IT COMES TO SPIRITUALITY, YOU DO WHAT' YOU DO BECAUSE you believe what you believe. Regardless of the importance you consciously place upon it, theology drives and determines your spirituality.

It concerns the point at which courage is the logical and sometimes the only possible outcome of integrity.

Ultimately, a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus. I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity.

There comes a time when one must take the position that it is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because his conscience tells him it is right.

To teach well is to believe in what and whom you teach.

Lefty A wise guy's always right even when he's wrong, he's right.

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

In order to "win a man to your cause," Lincoln explained, you must first reach his heart, "the great high road to his reason.

I don't believe in God because somebody told me I have to or I'll burn in hell. I believe in God because I do. And if I can accept the whole concept of God, and I do, then why not Jesus too?