Quotes About Conviction

I'll explain it this way, sir. If some men are in a car, driving with a destination in mind, and you know they are going the wrong way, but they are convinced they are going the right way, then you get into the car with them, and ride with them, talking-and finally when they see they are on the wrong road, not getting where they were intending, then you tell them, and they will listen to you then, what road to take.

I simply refused to believe.

If you dont stand for something you fall for everything.

Life is opinion.

Do your best to convince them. But act on your own, if justice requires it. If met with force, then fall back on acceptance and peaceability. Use the setback to practice other virtues. Remember that our efforts are subject to circumstances; you weren't aiming to do the impossible. —Aiming to do what, then? To try. And you succeeded. What you set out to do is accomplished.

If any man can convince and show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change; for I seek truth, by which no man was ever injured. But he is injured who abides in his error and ignorance.

Whatsoever he said, all men believed him that as he spake, so he thought, and whatsoever he did, that he did it with a good intent.

Imperturbabilidad con respecto a lo que acontece como resultado de una causa exterior y justicia en las cosas que se producen por una causa que de ti proviene. Es decir, instintos y acciones que desembocan en el mismo objetivo: obrar de acuerdo con el bien común, en la convicción de que esta tarea es acorde con tu naturaleza

If any man is able to convince me and show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change; for I seek the truth, by which no man was ever injured. But he is injured who abides in his error and ignorance.

If any man is able to convince me and show me that I do not think or act rightly, I will gladly change; for I seek the truth

Don't stray, but do what's right whenever you're moved to act, and stick with what's clear and certain whenever you think.

Two kinds of readiness are constantly needed: (i) to do only what the logos of authority and law directs, with the good of human beings in mind; (ii) to reconsider your position, when someone can set you straight or convert you to his. But your conversion should always rest on a conviction that it's right, or benefits others—nothing else. Not because it's more appealing or more popular.

But your conversion should always rest on a conviction that it's right, or benefits others—nothing else. Not because it's more appealing or more popular.

To believe in a person is quite different from believing that a series of statements about the person are true.

I am convinced that salvation in the biblical tradition has to do primarily with this life.

A man of faith is also full of courage

We should not be too confident in our belief of anything. (Cicero, Tusculan Disputations I.32)

being asked by Criton how he would be buried, "I have taken a great deal of pains," saith he, "my friends, to no purpose, for I have not convinced our Criton that I shall fly from hence, and leave no part of me behind. Notwithstanding, Criton, if you can overtake me, wheresoever you get hold of me, bury me as you please: but

My conscience has more weight for me than the opinion of the whole world

Faith is only a word, embroidered.

you could believe you were living virtuously and also murder people if you were a fanatic.

Another friend of mine used to maintain that airplanes stayed up in the air only because people believed—against reason—that they could fly: without that collective delusion sustaining them, they would instantly plummet to earth.

It's the unbroken calm, both within and without, that is getting to her. Real events happen to people, she thinks, why not me? And then there's her conviction that they are happening, all around her, but that they're being kept from her.

The more it hurt, the more – he was convinced – he loved her.