Quotes About Conviction

Doubts are death. Doubts are the dry rot of life.

Life isn't worth living until you have found something worth dying for.

Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.

I'm not going to doubt my life.

I have to convince myself that this is not a pointless life, even the body is telling me so.

Our life must answer for our faith.

Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it's for life.

I may not be a politician, but I will fight to the end of my life for what I believe in.

The one thing you can do for others is the manage your own life. And do it with conviction.

...by bringing myself over the edge and back, I discovered a passion to live my days fully, a conviction that will sustain me like sweet water on the periodically barren plain of our short lives.

Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.

Subconsciously we are lured by the expectation that we will reach a stage where we don't have to fix anything ever again. One day we will reach "happily ever after." We are convinced of the notion of "resolution." It's as if everything that we've experienced up until now, our whole lives to this moment, was a dress rehearsal. We believe our grand performance is yet to come, so we do not live for today.

It is a gift to be able to kill doubt with doubt.

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

Had he said anything but what he said, had I been given the chance to change my mind, had he told me how much I was needed, had he tried to convince me that there was some attestable humanity in all of this, I would have stayed.

These guys, they were so sure of their places in life--so deeply confident of their merit and their future--they didn't need any kind of front at all.

You can't believe because she tells you to," I said "No. The question is: how to be a good person if I don't believe anymore.

She never seemed to second-guess her thoughts. Me, I second-guess everything.

Be decisive; no one likes a waffler"; "Never complain, never explain"—

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.

We are not quite sure that the Sermon on the Mount is the Sermon for the mart. We are not sure, and an unsure place is an unsafe place* We must go on or go back. We must be more Christian or less.

My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.