Quotes About Conviction

You're wasting your time if you try to make someone see reason when reason is not influencing the decision.

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Romans 12:19 says, "Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God's wrath." God's wrath in a person's life often comes in the form of guilt and conviction. As parents, we need to stay out of the boxing ring and allow the Holy Spirit to convict our children of sin. Instead of getting into the ring with your children, imagine going around the ring to the child's corner and becoming a coach.

I expect that you must receive top marks at school, young lady. Madeleine smiled as she stirred her tea. There are always rewards for those who state the obvious frequently and with conviction.

Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.

My friend!" I exclaimed, "man is but man; and, whatever be the extent of his reasoning powers, they are of little avail when passion rages within, and he feels himself confined by the narrow limits of nature. It were better, then — but we will talk of this some other time," I said, and caught up my hat. Alas! my heart was full; and we parted without conviction on either side. How rarely in this world do men understand each other! August

Well-made you are, 'tis not to be denied, The rest a bold address will win you; If you but in yourself confide, At once confide all others in you.

Recibimos con docilidad toda primera impresión, porque el hombre está hecho de tal modo, que llega a persuadirse de que son verdad las cosas más absurdas, pero desde luego se graban en él tan profundamente, que infeliz del que pretenda destruirlas o borrarlas.

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si confiáis en vos mismo, la gente confiará en vos.

Wir alle sind so borniert, daß wir immer glauben, recht zu haben.

No one's opinion mattered to Amanda except her own, and she was never wrong. That she was frequently not right was beside the point.

Belief is the enemy.

One person with belief is worth a thousand people with only an interest.

Hope ... is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for early success, but, rather, an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.1

Thanks to God that he gave me stubbornness when I know I am right.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. –WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Ambiguity supposes eventual resolution of itself whereas certitude implies further ambiguity.

give a reason for people to believe in what you stand for.

Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.

Strength is a matter of a made up mind.

Tarby was a popular boy, and he was used to being right about everything.

If you believe in the Gospel what you like, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.

The best lack all conviction while the worst are full passionate intensity