Quotes About Conviction

At times, one can win clever people over to a principle merely by presenting it in the form of an outrageous paradox.

Para o homem que tem uma convicção, ela é a sua espinha dorsal.

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.

Only a person of deep faith can afford the luxury of skepticism.

Of all that is written I love only what a man has written with his blood. Write with blood, and you will experience that blood is spirit.

In England we agonised over the demolition of every old shack; in Sichuan, they just went ahead and flattened whole cities! You had to admire the brazen confidence of it, the conviction that the future would be better than the past.

In almost nine cases out of ten, those who have once had the Faith but now reject it, or claim that it does not make sense, are driven not by reasoning but by the way they are living

If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.

But if a good heart, a good intention, a subjective conviction are declared to be the sources from which actions derive their worth, then there is no longer any hypocrisy or evil at all; for whatever someone does, he can always turn it into something good through reflecting on his good intentions and motives, and so the moment of his convictions renders it good.

A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.

Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.

A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.

I hope, by God's grace, that I am truly a Christian, not deviating from the faith, and that I would rather suffer the penalty of a terrible death than wish to affirm anything outside of the faith or transgress the commandments of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

What we wish, that we readily believe.

I wish not merely to be called Christian, but also to be Christian.

The ideas I'm working with are ideas I'm committed to. I don't know how to soft-shoe them. I don't know how to make them more palpable. I just never knew how to be one of those girls. I wish I knew how to be that sometimes, but I don't know how to be that way.

I wish that I did the things that I really believe in, because when I do, my life goes much smoother.

I believe I and all the Chinese people have such a conviction that China will make continuous progress and the people's wishes for and needs for democracy and freedom are irresistible.

It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught the very soul of the character she wishes to portray, in the music and action which reveal it.

If you don't believe in something, you'll fall for anything. I believe everything happens for a reason. If you are strong from within, you can will anything. I'm a firm believer that where there's a will, there's a way.