Quotes About Conviction

I will be fighting for what I believe in till the very end.

Time makes more converts than reason.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

You just want to prove people wrong and, over time, people start believing in you.

I certainly direct with confidence even if I'm not confident. I learned early on as an actor that confidence can be faked, and it's not always a terrible thing to do. A lot of times if people feel you're confident, then they're confident.

In high school I had sex with girls quite a few times. They were straight women who I convinced to jump in the sack with me.

You have to believe 100 percent in what you're doing, that some picture or some thing we do is going to change the world in some tiny, minute way.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

I believe you have to be honest with yourself. If you believe that the direction you want to go is the right direction, then you should do it.

I am not that savvy, to be honest. I know what I believe in, and I try to follow people who do the same.

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.

I believe in my Mormon faith, and I endeavor to live by it. My faith is the faith of my fathers - I will be true to them and to my beliefs.

In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all.

I say to people today, 'You must be prepared if you believe in something. If you believe in something, you have to go for it. As individuals, we may not live to see the end.'

I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.

Honestly, I just have to do what's right for me, and what I would tell people is what I believe, which is that tolerance is very important.

We are being challenged by Islam these years. There are some things for which one should display no tolerance. And when we are tolerant, we must know whether it is because of convenience or conviction.

What I do and what I love, I don't betray that. Sometimes people say you have to tolerate it. No, you have to do what you think necessary, what your heart tells you, and go where the Almighty leads you.

The average religious person has their beliefs, but they're not trying to get people fired who don't have their beliefs. But zealots do do that. It's not enough for them to believe it; they can't tolerate other people who don't believe what they believe, and they have this absolute certainty that they're right.

In fact, Mott had not been forced to believe anything: the willing lies of fiction depend upon willing believers. Like love, belief is an act of volition.

Your disbelief cures nothing.

HIPPOLYTUS: I can't sin against a God I don't believe in.

One cannot convince another to love anything or anyone.

I write in defense of the beliefs I fear are least defensible.