Quotes About Conviction

It will be best to start right and not let the record get confused, for some instinct tells me that these details are going to be important to the historian some day. For I feel like an experiment, I feel exactly like an experiment; it would be impossible for a person to feel more like an experiment than I do, and so I am coming to feel convinced that that is what I AM—an experiment; just an experiment, and nothing more.

Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.

Please forgive me for thinking faith means certainty.

He stood a few meters from the step and spoke with great conviction, great joy. Alles ist Scheisse, he announced. All is shit.

Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.

Normalmente vamos por la vida reyéndonos constantemente lo que nos decimos. «Estoy bien», decimos. «Estoy genial.» Pero de vez en cuando la verdad se te echa encima y no puedes sacudírtela. Entonces te das cuenta de que a menudo esa verdad no es una respuesta, sino una pregunta. Incluso ahora, me pregunto hasta qué punto me convence mi vida.

White is without question a color, and personally, I don't think you want to argue with me.

I don't believe this, Sister Maria muttered. It can't be, because sure enough, when Liesel stepped forward and presented her hands, Ludwig Schmeikl was all over them, rusting by the moment.

He's the type who is unafraid to make a decision. In this case, Rudy had already made up his mind about Liesel Meminger.

Emma, I want to tell you something about being right: being right is much harder than on a person than being wrong.

If You've Got Nothing Worth Dying For, You've Got Nothing Worth Living For

There are some things so dear, some things so precious, some things so eternally true, that they are worth dying for. And I submit to you that if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

if the man did not find something to die for,he will not fit to life...

Martin luther king '' A man who have not discovered something he will die for, is not fit to live.

On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right? There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right....

If a man hasn't found something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

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 one's conscience tells one that it is right

A man who does not have something for which he is willing to die is not fit to live.

I submit to you that if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.

One of these days I'm going to put my body where my mind is.

If you have not discovered something you are willing to die for, then you are not fit to live.

Prima o poi arriva l'ora in cui bisogna prendere una posizione che non è né sicura, né conveniente, né popolare; ma bisogna prenderla, perché è giusta.