Quotes About Conviction

I just sing the song and I sing it with conviction, meaning and I get into the mood of every song I do no matter how much time I have in between.

It's easy to believe in something when you win all the time...The losses are what define a man's faith.

You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime.

Studies show that when we vocalize an opinion, whether or not we believe it to be true, in time we usually come to support it.

It is time to start going door to door and convincing our neighbours to vote for a clean-energy future.

Belief is the cornerstone of all the great achievements since the beginning of time.

And the dangerous thing about excuses is that if we recite them enough times, we actually come to believe they are true.

Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.

I'd learned a long time ago that you can't prove a negative. You can prove that you did something, but it's the devil to prove you didn't do something.

Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction.

After a lifetime of engaging in long, passionate discussions I have come to the conclusion that it is a waste of time trying to convince anyone of anything.

The more often a person tell a lie-the more time u hear lie,u begin to believe it-if it's told often enough,u start begin to believe it

There comes a time to join the side you're on.

There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.

Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Having faith is believing in something you just know ain't true.

I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

It is said, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent upon him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not.

I reck'n I knows what I knows.

I'll not go where there is any of that sort of thing going on, again. It's the sure way, and the only sure way;

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.

In light matters--matters of small consequence, like religion and politics and such things--he never acquired a conviction that could survive a disapproving remark from a cat.

She had the grit to pray for Judus if she took the notion—there warn't no back-down to her, I judge.