Quotes About Conviction

I'm not going to be bullied into not doing what I think is right.

I had to burn all of my non-Christian records.

I can't do something that I would not throw myself under a bus for.

I believe a democracy needs men and women of conviction in its positions of leadership in order for us to succeed. That's the subject of 'A Perfect Candidate,' a film I made 20 years ago about Oliver North and Charles Robb.

Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health is based upon science, that's a real success story for us.

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose.

I did a play, back in the day, called 'Sucker Punch,' and it meant so much for me. I was 21. And I went, 'I just want to do work like that.' Stuff I believe in. And when I have compromised, I've never really felt good about it.

I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.

Acting doesn't suffice.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.

It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.

If President Trump wants to actually prove he's a strong leader, he could start by championing American ideals even when they don't suit him personally.

There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.

If someone complains about Europe from Monday to Saturday, then nobody is going to believe him on Sunday when he says he is a convinced European.

If the angel deigns to come, it will be because you have convinced him, not by your tears, but by your humble resolve to be always beginning.

Believe me, life is right in all cases.

Well, few men love the truth or even regard facts so dearly as to let either one upset their picture of the world. Poor Galileo, poor John Jasper; they persecuted one and laughed at the other, but both were witnesses for the truth they professed.

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires....courage.

Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men,—that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost,—and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.