Quotes About Conviction

I prefer to die rather than eat beef.

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.

You cannot 'rationalize' what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called 'truthization.' There is no way to obtain more truth for a proposition by bribery, flattery, or the most passionate argument - you can make more people believe the proposition, but you cannot make it more true.

I came into office to do what was correct, not to see what was politically expedient to get re-elected.

If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.

If you know what you're talking about, or if you feel that you do, the reader will believe you.

Write about what you care about. If you do that, you're probably going to do your best writing, reach off the page and touch the reader. How are you going to make the reader care if you don't care yourself?

I'm always astonished by the confidence my readers put in me.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

I am ready to rot in jail for the rest of my life rather than admit that my small-minded enemies are right.

When you know you are 100% and, you know, are ready to go, you just have that feeling. You know you are going to perform well.

I think a first-time director always has to convince a lot of people that they're ready to do it.

I know when I'm getting ready to mess up, I'm going to do it full-on.

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.

The Proclamation does not, indeed, mark out exactly the course I should myself prefer. But I am ready to take it just as it is written, and to stand by it with all my heart.

Futurism is another American myth: whether Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan or Obama, American presidents all come into office with a new program, and the conviction that the country is going to be better than ever.

Ronald Reagan's well documented final battles with Alzheimer's disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought.

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

Make acting seem real and as if it weren't acting. Just make it real.

I'm not a confused person in real life. I'm very clear.

Your character is always right. No real person thinks they're being stupid or misguided or bigoted or evil or just plain wrong - so your characters can't, either.

The real problem for Democrats is we've got to help people believe, and then we've got to deliver the message to them. Believe what? That we are absolutely, unshakeably on their side, and we're going to fight for them every single minute.