Quotes About Conviction

Once a person believes - really believes - that certain ideas can lead to eternal happiness, or to its antithesis, he cannot tolerate the possibility that the people he loves might be led astray by the blandishments of unbelievers. Certainty about the next life is simply incompatible with tolerance in this one.

Knowing what a person believes on a certain subject is not identical to knowing how that person thinks.

Certain beliefs place their adherents beyond the reach of every peaceful means of persuasion, while inspiring them to commit acts of extraordinary violence against others.

I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.

When I stood up there as a pinch hitter, I honestly believed I was the best hitter in the game. That's the only attitude to have.

Don't follow the path. Go where there is no path and begin the trail. When you start a new trail equipped with courage, strength and conviction, the only thing that can stop you is you!

Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do--then do it with all your strength.

Just remember, strength and courage. If you stand on principle, you'll never lose.

Strength is a matter of a made up mind.

It stands for diversity. It stands for vision and strength. It stands for belief in the right things. That's what I think it stands for.

You must be strong, dear brothers and sisters. You must be strong with the strength that comes from faith.

Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

Character is the moral strength to do the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay.

Sometimes when you're treated unfairly it makes you stronger and more determined. I admire that kind of strength. People who have it take a stand and put their blood and soul into what they believe.

Our greatest strength comes not from what we possess, but from what we believe; not from what we have, but from who we are.

A warrior...must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.

I don't believe in anything and that makes me stronger than you think

It is my conviction that there is perhaps no single factor more important in a spiritual home and in building spiritual strength in our children than the teaching and practice of prayer.

My principal battle with the North Vietnamese was a moral one, and prayer was my prime source of strength.

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist.

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

All the strength and force of man come from his faith in things unseen.