Quotes About Conviction

People want to believe in something—even if, deep inside, they know it is false. But

There comes a time, Laurana, when you've got to risk your life for something you believe in—something that means more than life itself.

The people must acquire faith in themselves before they are ready to believe in anything beyond themselves.

People want to believe in something—even if, deep inside, they know it is false.

There comes a time, Laurana, when you've got to risk your life for something you believe in -- something that means more than life itself.

People want to believe in something—even if, deep inside, they know it is false. But what of you? How was your journey to your homelands?

When the good holds sway) it breeds intolerance, rigidity, a belief that because I am right, those who don't believe as I do are wrong. - Palidine, Chief God of Good

Ils devraient toujours lire le livre à voix haute et claire, se tenir de toutes leurs forces exempts de toute mémoire de l'avoir jamais lu, dans la conviction de n'en connaître rien, et cela chaque soir.

Les escarmouches avec les théologiens avaient eu leur charme, mais il savait fort bien qu'il n'existe aucun accommodement durable entre ceux qui cherchent, pèsent, dissèquent, et s'honorent d'être capables de penser demain autrement qu'aujourd'hui, et ceux qui croient ou affirment croire, et obligent sous peine de mort leurs semblables à en faire autant. (L'acte d'accusation)

L'amitié est avant tout certitude, c'est ce qui la distingue de l'amour.

The sight of Fos and Opal coming down the street together absolutely tickled him. The idea of two such strangely unremarkable yet lovable people could have found and met each other reaffirmed his waning faith in anything remotely optimistic about mankind and seemed to be a more convincing proof than all the gospel shit flown from the pulpits of Knox County that life could, in fact, distribute happy endings.

Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse.

We need to display as much conviction behind our love as some have displayed behind their hate.

No matter what is happening in our lives, we choose how we wish to think about it. And the greatest gift we give ourselves is often our willingness to change our minds. Despite what might seem to be the saddest and most intractable situation, we have the power to believe that something else is possible, that things can change, that a miracle can happen. This gives us vision, which gives us conviction, which gives us power.

Do terrorists hate us just some of the time? Do they have a casual commitment to their cause? Do they take less than seriously the goal of full manifestation of their worldview? The only way we will triumph over hate is to become as deeply committed to love as some people are committed to hate, as deeply devoted to expressing our love as some people are devoted to expressing their hate, and as firm in our conviction that love is our mission as some are that hate is theirs.

I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things.

When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.

The wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God, according to the epistle of James. But we have lived for years with the raucous influence of self-declared Christians who are clearly convinced that their wrath and God's righteousness are one and the same.

I am not the first to suggest that anthropology arose in Western thought in an inauspicious period, one characterized by colonialism and so-called racial science. But I seem to be more or less alone in my conviction that, in all its primitivity, this anthropology continues to color the ways in which we conceive of human nature.

Boughton takes a very dim view of him, because he unsettled the faith of many people, but I take issue as much with those people as with Feuerbach. It seems to me some people just go around looking to get their faith unsettled.

He had asked Hagen one final question. Does this man have real balls? Hagen translated the question properly in his mind. Did Jack Woltz have the balls to risk everything, to run the chance of losing all on a matter of principle, on a matter of honor; for revenge?

A life is sacred or it isn't. We can't adjust what we believe just because it causes us pain.

Ik was er heilig van overtuigd dat ze niet zou bellen. Tenslotte was ik een hinderlijke getuige van een verleden dat ze koste wat kost wilde uitwissen; anders zou ze nooit zo hebben gehandeld als ze de hele avond gedaan had, door me op die manier te ontwijken.

amaba tanto las ideas y se movía en ellas con tanta solvencia, fuera un convencido de que son éstas las que deben someterse si entran en contradicción con la realidad humana, pues, cuando ocurre al revés, las calles se llenan de guillotinas y paredones de fusilamiento y comienza el reinado de los censores y los policías.