Quotes About Conviction

He had come to believe that courage depended on knowing that there was somebody who believed in you.

Not all the inquisitors of Spain were cruel or narrow-minded men, you know. Some truly believed they were saving the souls of those in their charge. They would be astounded if they knew how we perceived them now.

But I have learned something good about myself. I can stand up to people who have more power than I do, and fight for what I believe in.

She is a person of most decided opinions—which is not a criticism. I cannot bear wishy-washy people who agree with whoever spoke to them last

Because no one could in any guise convince me of what I myself knew to be true, that I was damned in my own mind and soul.

his hand spread itself out flat on the table. I paused and took another good look at him. There was something otherworldly about him, the way that he sat, the way he used this one hand to gesture. It was the decorum primitive people often have that makes them seem repositors of immense wisdom, when in fact all they possess is immense conviction.

We are dogmatic only when it comes to defending our lack of dogma.

I came because I could resist it. I came because perhaps I didn't quite believe in you. I didn't believe in spite of all I'd read and been told.

Coming here had not been a mistake. Willa couldn't say exactly how she knew that, but she did.

People follow a person who they feel "speaks the Truth.

The best way to be missed when you're gone, Is to stand for something when you're here

We believe what we want to believe, and once we believe something, it becomes a self-fulfilling truth.

People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves. What leaders do: they give people stories they can tell themselves. Stories about the future and about the change.

The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there.

the only thing holding you back from becoming the kind of person who changes things is this: lack of faith. Faith that you can do it. Faith that it's worth doing. Faith that failure won't destroy you.

People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.

If religion comprises rules you follow, faith is demonstrated by the actions you take.

Make it easy to believe.

Apostar no significa estar en lo cierto; significa pasar a la acción.

When you know what you stand for, you don't need to compete

Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change that you believe in.

If we did not believe that truth is universal, why should so many missionaries endure these hardships? It is precisely because truth is common to all countries and all times that we call it truth. If a true doctrine were not true alike in Portugal and Japan we could not call it true.

Lako je umreti za dobro i lepo; teško je umreti za bedno i pokvareno - to je ono što sam tada odjednom shvatio.

As Dennis Lindley had argued, if someone attaches a prior probability of zero the hypothesis that the moon is made of green cheese, then the whole armies of astronauts coming back bearing green cheese cannot convince him.