Quotes About Conviction

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.

I don't know one of my friends who is considered a conservative who has not had to go back and thoroughly think through everything. You do a lot of soul-searching - 'cause we are not going to win any popularity contests.

Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument.

Sometimes it's easy to go where the wind blows, but those that stand firmly planted are forces to be reckoned with.

If the State cannot survive the anti-slavery agitation, then let the State perish. If the Church must be cast down by the strugglings of Humanity to be free, then let the Church fall and its fragments be scattered to the four winds of Heaven, never more to curse the earth.

I don't use any of the terminology like 'left wing' and 'right wing.' I use language like 'godly' and 'holiness.'

Time will tell whether I am a wing nut or a megalomaniac. The difference between a cult and faith is time.

So what we - all we really want, I think, from the so-called Democratic wing of the Democratic Party is really to stand up for what we believe in.

A winner for me is someone who stands up for the right, is honest and can even go against their friends while pursuing truth.

I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism.

Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?

We have to say now we think the character of the party has changed so far it will take something very exceptional, something really out of the ordinary line to make us be convinced there's a chance of winning back the party.

Public health depends on winning over hearts and minds. It's not enough to just have a good policy, you have to convince people to actually follow it.

Censoriously asserting one's moral superiority and treating skeptics as imbeciles and deplorables wins few converts.

People are drawn to preaching that is passionate and offered with conviction. Passion comes when the preacher has spent significant time with the text, and when God has spoken through the text in a way that addresses the preacher's life first.

It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.

Playing Lord Ram is a once in a lifetime opportunity and, thankfully, people were convinced with my interpretation of the divine character all those years ago.

Thatcher was prepared to destroy the world rather than give in on something she believed in.

Once I close the doors, it's closed. I don't open it back up. That's kind of me as a human being. That's just one of the things about me... But yeah, for me, I don't close anything until I'm officially done.

The first thing that's important is to really have people believe in you. If you have that, you can do anything.

The first thing that comes out of my mouth is always right.

The one thing I'm convinced George W. Bush is good at is bipartisanship. It's clearly something he enjoys personally.

The only thing I know is I ain't changing my brand. I know what I believe. I'm confident in what I know. And I'm gonna say it. And if folks like it, wonderful. If they don't like it, I understand.

The only thing you can do to lead a crowd is prove your passion to them.