Quotes About Conviction

His was a lonely, unorthodox conviction that war was man's ultimate failure.

It was a basic tenet of faith with men of Ranulf's class that a knight, trained in the ways of war since boyhood, could easily vanquish lesser foes, as much a belief in the superiority of blood and breeding as in the benefits of battle lore and killing competence. Ranulf had accepted this comforting conviction, too, but no one seemed to have told his assailants that they were inferior adversaries.

Men always think God favors their cause. I am sure Ya'q?b of Aleppo never doubted it, either.

Abiding faith does not depend on borrowed concepts. Rather, it is the magnetic force of a bone-deep, lived understanding, one that draws us to realize our ideals, walk our talk,and act in accord with what we know to be true.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well," Václav Havel, the Czech dissident, writer, and statesman, said, "but the certainty that it is worth doing no matter how it turns out.

the problem is never with the faith, but with the faithful.

Hinduism as a faith might espouse tolerance, this does not necessarily mean that all Hindus behave tolerantly.

If you believed in truth and cared enough to obtain it, Ganga affirmed, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it. It was essential to accept punishment willingly in order to demonstrate the strength of one's convictions. That

Discussion is an 'art form' in India, an egocentric ritual of simulated conviction or, at best, a second-hand expression of conscience. Its vitality is attenuated by its own irrelevance.

But the most important part, he says, is that you have to believe in something that is real and true. A lot of guys don't believe in anything. They will tell you what they are against, what they don't like,but they can't tell you what they are for. Because they don't actually believe in anything.

We don't really know what we believe in or care about until what we believe in or care about is threatened, challenged, or measured.

Truth doesn't enter in if they've decided something is doctrine, they'll ignore all evidence to the contrary and lie to your face.

And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God.

There can be no faith without doubt. No strength without temptation. (Rafael)

Believe me, lady, my strength is the one thing I never doubt. (Vane) It's amazing the lies we tell other people, isn't it? (Sunshine's grandmother)

For those who want to believe, no proof is ever required. For those who refuse to believe, no proof is ever enough.

There can be no faith without doubt

For some time now she has had the conviction that life is about to change if only because it must. . . .

There has got to be a point that exists somewhere, when a rational person just has to shake his head and say: 'You know what? Maybe all the crack-pots are right!'

Faith is the evidence of the unseen.

I'm a firm believer that when children have a strong conviction about something, it's often because there's some powerful experience from a past life. Something that they didn't get to fulfill.

You see everything is about belief, whatever we believe rules our existence, rules our life.

As an actor, you usually live your life with faith.

Believing that you can be sure of everything you've achieved.