Quotes About Conviction

For I say to you in all sadness of conviction, that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only when you have worked alone—when you have felt around you a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man, and in hope and in despair have trusted to your own unshaken will—then only will you have achieved.

the true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief.

Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.

My only answer is, if my grave stood open on one side and you upon the other I'd go into my grave before I would take one step to meet you.

But, Polly, a principle that can't bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, isn't worthy of the name.

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

I don't believe it's the right sort of love, and I'd rather not try it, was the decided answer.

a principle that can't bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, is n't worthy of the name.

Ah, if I could only feel assured that it was right and not a blind impulse of a weak woman's heart!' ~Rosamond

Now Demi, tell me where you keep your mind? ... he answered in a tone of calm conviction, In my little belly

Decide first what is authentic,then go after it with all your heart.

There is no essential difference between religion and morality except that the one is more intense and passionate than the other.

When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions tell me that's true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not.

It's not always easy to spot idolatry in ourselves. Until the Holy Spirit brings it to light, we may be unaware how tight a grip something has on us. For that reason, we should pay close attention to anything we're convinced we can't live without.

En realidad, lo que perdió al bueno de Zola en este caso fue el prejuicio. Y es que nuestros prejuicios nos encierran, nos achican la cabeza, nos idiotizan; y cuando estos prejuicios coinciden, como suele suceder, con la convención mayoritaria, nos convierten en cómplices del abuso y la injusticia, como en el caso de Wilde.

If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

Rhett: If you've made up your mind to impale someone, do it with conviction.

A liar only lies when he hopes to be believed.

No jury, we knew, could convict a man on the criminal count on native evidence in a land where you can buy a murder-charge, including the corpse, all complete for fifty-four rupees

The causes of a revolution are usually sought in objective conditions--general poverty, oppression, scandalous abuses. But this view, while correct, is one-sided. After all, such conditions exist in a hundred countries, but revolutions erupt rarely. What is needed is the consciousness of poverty and the consciousness of oppression, and the conviction that poverty and oppression are not the natural order of this world.

Faith is the highest passion in a man.

I can compel no man to agree with my opinions, but at least I can compel him to have an opinion.

What every man can do is to make the movement of infinite resignation, and I for my part would not hesitate to pronounce everyone cowardly who wishes to make himself believe he can not do it. With faith it is a different matter. But what every man has not a right to do, is to make others believe that faith is something lowly, or that it is an easy thing, whereas it is the greatest and the hardest. People