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Quotes About Conviction

Don't you ever get tired of believing, Madame? Don't you ever want proof?" Madame Manec rests a hand on Marie-Laure's forehead. The thick hand that first reminded her of a gardener's or a geologist's. "You must never stop believing. That's the most important thing.
~ Anthony Doerr
Você nunca pode deixar de acreditar. Essa é a coisa mais importante.
~ Anthony Doerr
They always seem to be going somewhere and never doubt that it is the right place to be going.
~ Anthony Doerr
Você nunca pode deixar de acreditar.
~ Anthony Doerr
How do you ever know for certain that you are doing the right thing?
~ Anthony Doerr
Lucius Sergius Catilina was an altogether more formidable opponent. He was one of a line of able and rebellious young aristocrats during the declining years of the Roman Republic who refused to settle down after early indiscretions and enter respectable politics as defenders of the status quo. They usually joined the populares. Sometimes they did so out of youthful idealism and intellectual conviction, but others were simply rebelling against family discipline. They often badly needed money.
~ Anthony Everitt
Rudolf was well-nigh convinced that the man had been on his track: he would make certainty surer. The bold game was always his choice and his delight; this trait he shared with Rupert of Hentzau, and hence arose, I think, the strange secret inclination he had for his unscrupulous opponent.
~ Anthony Hope
He died fighting for what he believed in.
~ Anthony Horowitz
What makes them dangerous is their belief that they should not be stopped, that they are justified in what they do. I will not speak of my experiences in the war, but I will say this. The greatest evil occurs when people, no matter what their aims or their motives, become utterly convinced that they are right.
~ Anthony Horowitz
The greatest evil occurs when people, no matter what their aims or their motives, become utterly convinced that they are right.
~ Anthony Horowitz
The greatest evil occurs when people, no matter what their aims or their motives, become utterly convinced that they are right. [Atticus Pūnd]
~ Anthony Horowitz
if you surrounded murder with enough forms and procedures, if you could convince yourself that it was an absolute necessity, then ultimately it would not be murder at all.
~ Anthony Horowitz
He'd believe anything provided it's not in Holy Scripture.
~ Douglas Feaver
UNU provides a continuous feedback loop of the group's preference for a choice, as well as its conviction. People are adjusting their levels of conviction based on the completeness of their own knowledge on the subject.
~ Louis B. Rosenberg
We have been working towards providing a clean environment to the people of India, and we are doing it out of our own conviction.
~ Piyush Goyal
I'm a pro-life candidate because I believe that science is proving us right every day.
~ Carly Fiorina
In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
You have to keep proving yourself - every film - until the audience believes you can do anything.
~ Taapsee Pannu
I'm all about proving things.
~ Greg Hardy
Psychologically, when you hear something a number of times, you start to believe it.
~ Tara Westover
They may well say not only is this not true, but I will put in an injunction to prevent publication. No, stories don't go in unless I'm convinced by the people who write them that they're true. And if I'm wrong, then so be it.
~ Ian Hislop
Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all.
~ Dalton Trumbo
If I don't believe in a role, I can't pull it off.
~ Miranda Richardson
Look at all the misery in the Middle East, for example. All these countries have Islam in common, and far too few dare to criticize Islam as an ideology, and what it's doing to these countries. I know I might get punched in the face for saying these things, but my conviction is that less religion in the world would be better.
~ Bjorn Ulvaeus