Quotes About Conviction

Do what you believe in and believe in what you do. The rest is a waste of time and energy.

I learned many years ago never to waste time trying to convince my colleagues.

I think I've reached the point that I'm convinced enough of the reality of the ET presence and I'm not going to deny it and shy away from it.... It is time to open this up to the public.

There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series.

It's never really been that hard for me. I've never had any desire to eat meat. In fact, when I was a kid I would have a really difficult time eating meat at all.

If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.

All very well for you religious chaps to talk so, said Larry, but I'll turn a shilling when I can. I don't believe in religion,for I don't see that your religious people are any better than the rest.

I have heard men say that seeing is believing; but I should say that feeling is believing;

Sullen silence was taken for rapt attention, and gave him greater room to talk; sharp answers were received as smart sallies of girlish vivacity, that only required an indulgent rebuke; and flat contradictions were but as oil to the flames, calling forth new strains of argument to support his dogmas, and bringing down upon me endless floods of reasoning to overwhelm me with conviction.

În orice reproÈ™ e È™i ceva adev?rat.

Everybody thinks their opinion is the right one. If they didn't, they would get a new one.

So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.

If you don't believe in what you are saying, there is no point in your saying it. You might as well call it a day and go bowling.

My lifelong and core belief, right after the conviction that I was defective, mildly annoying, and better than everyone else was that my help was helpful.

When you don't have enough or you run out, you feel in your core that the leak has begun and there will be no end to the leakage. And this makes you feel like a chump. Whereas having some money gives you the conviction that you're not naked in the howling wind, even though you basically are, existentially.

To paraphrase Paul Tillich, the opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty.

The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty.

I love to be, and so often am, right.

There's nothing wrong in doubting. It sometimes leads to greater faith.

A man convinced against his will, is of his own opinion still,'

There's a precise moment when we reject contradiction. This moment of choice is the lie we will live by. What is dearest to us is often dearer to us than truth.

You can like people and still betray them, if it was for a cause you believed in passionately enough. You have to betray other people rather than betray yourself--if that's what it comes to.

Perhaps it is because my conviction is anyone may believe whatever they wish. Intolerance is a greater offense against God than holding a strange or even inconsistent belief. You have the right to worship what you wish - a pile of stones in your garden - as long as you do not injure others.

The success of the lie depends a great deal upon how much the hearer wishes to believe it," she replied.