Quotes About Conviction

Passion is an intense feeling of conviction and a strong desire or devotion to an activity or concept.

The future belongs to believers.

As only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro, never allow yourself to be swayed by popular opinion.

Once you believe that you can do something, there is not a single person in the universe who can convince you otherwise.

Never think twice, when you have decided once.

confident: have no fans... only flames.

The first buyer of your Success has to be you.Once you are truly IN, You are sure to WIN

Trust yourself and try not to get lured off course by conflicting opinions that don't seem to sit right with you.

Naturally have a belief that you can make a difference and you will make it unknowingly.

If you are going to be a doubter, I don't need your negative energy.

Confidence matters a lot than what you want to say, if you are not bold enough.

Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it.

You can, if you believe you can.

It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof

When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can you no longer be one?

But my father's faith, as I said, was absolute. Through God's prayer he could be granted exactly what he wanted.

Well, let me tell you, your recollection of every last detail has nothing to do with memory. It's called holding a goddamn grudge. ... That's what I remember the most, not addresses but pain - that old lump-in-the-throat conviction that the world had fingered me for abuse and neglect. Is that the same as a grudge?

I can afford to be wrong, because I am more right—that's all.

more damaging was his conviction that we live by a series of repetitions until the experience is solved, understood, liquidated...

I have no longer the strength to act what I do not feel.

My fiction is not autobiography. I am not an exhibitionist. I do not show myself. I am not asking for forgiveness. I do not want to confess. But I have used everything I know—my life—to show what I believe must be shown so that it can be faced. The imperative at the heart of my writing—what must be done—comes directly from my life. But I do not show my life directly, in full view; nor even look at it while others watch.

While adulation has its moments and can be like a bath in warm water after coming in from a snowstorm, the psychic high from standing up for what you believe in and being attacked for it far surpassed the comfort to be derived from that bath of praise.

I realized that what I had feared most—expulsion and derision—didn't really even hurt, not when you are standing up for what you believe.

This might suggest that any successful exercise of apologetics, like indeed that of Lewis, must contain a strong confessional element which convinces precisely because it persuades through the force of an imaginative presentation of belief.