Quotes About Conviction

I've got a real problem when I know something is wrong or I feel something is wrong, I'm going to speak about it. I get it from my mother.

You cannot convince a Buddhist to become a Protestant any more than you can convince a person who embraces realism as the highest form of art that fantasy is an equally important manifestation. It's impossible.

For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be deprived of any realistic hope of gaining the opportunities now enjoyed by the more fortunate.

If I want to do realistic cinema and convince the audience in authentic roles, I have to walk the extra mile.

People don't have to agree with me. They can say, 'My gosh, I can't believe I'm listening to this guy. I can't disagree with him more.' But at least they know that I'm going to fight for things that I believe in. And I don't need to be in formal office to do that.

I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.

I'm not ashamed of the Gospel.

There's a gray area there that I'm satisfied is not gray.

I don't have much of an ego, but I have a great deal of confidence!

Great leaders are not proverbial fence sitters. They judge. They opine. They challenge. They fight for their vision.

I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend.

I'm a combative person, I know I am, and the greatest thing about law school was I learned to fight with my brain. I clarified something to myself. No matter how much you want to live in the white man's world, you either live by what you believe in, or you die.

If somebody crosses me, or if I love them, then it's pretty unequivocal; there's not much grey.

I would love not to take cricket home but I don't do shades of grey. I need to be 100 per cent committed.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

You can often tell the difference between a singer that grows up in the church and one that just can sing. There's a connection to love and support and care. You feel good when you hear it. You feel the people have so much conviction in what they're singing. They believe it, so you believe it.

It is ridiculous to say that Sacco and Vanzetti are being railroaded to the chair. The situation is much worse than that. This is a thing done cold-bloodedly and with deliberation. But care and deliberation do not guarantee justice.

But I don't believe in guilt by association.

Just because you're convicted in a court room doesn't mean you're guilty of something.

I like to stay within the context of the character's background. If he's a cop, I have to make sure the audience is convinced that this person, a cop, can do only so much without a gun.

My gut has never let me down.

I've learned to really just trust my gut and to go with what I really feel inside.

I don't make decisions with my head anymore. If I don't get the go ahead with my gut, I usually back out.