Quotes About Conviction

I thought, This is how it feels inside the right decision.

You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.

In spite of the open, laughing face that the Burmese presented to the world, the ingrained, if inarticulate, conviction of their own nationhood prevented them from truly admitting those they saw as 'foreign' into their inner sancturns.

when a couple of members of the Harvard faculty announced all the evidence, Jefferson said, "I would rather believe that two Yankee professors have lied than believe that stones fall from the sky.…" He was a great man. But here he is wrong.

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.

Don't think. Believe. Trust your heart, not your brain. Don't think. Feel. Believe.

And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor's pocket? No, it's not as easy as that. If that were all, I'd say ninety-five percent of humanity were honest, upright men. Only, as you can see, they aren't. Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

There can be no compromise on moral principles.

The cult of moral grayness is a revolt against moral values.

You don't have to see through the eyes of others, hold onto yours, stand on your own judgment, you know that what is, is–say it aloud, like the holiest of prayers, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

You don't have to see through the eyes of others, hold onto yours, stand on your own judgment, you know that what is, is—say it aloud, like the holiest of prayers, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.

We are not used to persons who do things simply for the love of god whom they don't believe in.

That's all a belief was. A thought. But look at how much power it held!

Mrs. Martin, I happen to be committed to a course of action. That does not mean I don't care whether the action is good or bad.

A devotion to principle, whether that principle makes much sense to the rest of us, is usually something to marvel at.

He had come a long way since his conviction, as a twenty-year-old, that honesty could not be counterfeited.

honesty very nearly constituted a religious principle for her.* She believed in full candor, which was not the same as full disclosure.

We all subscribe to preposterous beliefs; we just don't know yet which ones they are. We

Cases of Conscience

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. —VOLTAIRE

Samuel Willard

If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don't let some idiot talk you out of it.