Quotes About Conviction

What was civilization ever, really, but the attempt by man to talk himself into being good?

Per un periodo c'eravamo tormentati a furia di sincerità, nell'ingenua convinzione che ci avrebbe salvato

The worst things are done not by people who believe they are doing wrong, but by those who are convinced that they walk with the hand of God on one shoulder.

The popular saying is "seeing is believing," but in Christ, believing leads to seeing.

Ho analizzato il suo sorriso. È il sorriso di qualcuno abituato a pensare che tutti gli credano. Un ghigno irreale, finto, convinto di essere irresistibile. Come quei comici che usano le risate registrate. Ecco: un sorriso di risate finte.

Passiamo metà della vita a deridere ciò in cui altri credono, e l'altra metà a credere in ciò che altri deridono.

you only set out to prove what you have already decided to believe.

Aspiration is as much a bodily longing as an intellectual desire; appreciation as much a passion as a preference; conviction as much an intuition as a rational conclusion. Irrespective of the purpose to which we are committed, when such feelings are aroused, life is infused with meaning.

evaded her, and she sensed they did not believe her

My dad said I did the right thing. I hope I did, but it's hard to tell sometimes.

With the conviction came a store of assurance. He felt a quiet manhood, non-assertive but of sturdy and strong blood. He knew that he would no more quail before his guides wherever they should point. He had been to touch the great death, and found that, after all, it was but the great death. He was a man.

If I had been psychopathic enough to feel no remorse or religious enough to believe in redemption through a divine outside agency, perhaps I should have been happier; as it was I had neither the consolation that I was free of guilt, nor the conviction that I could ever be forgiven.

Seek with enough conviction aforethought and ye shall find.

Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.

You might question a winkle - a feeling that came to you right out of the blue - but you didn't question knowing.

Tell him he's wrong. Tell him that even if he's right about waiting, he's right for the wrong reasons, and that makes him all the way wrong.

Being ninety-five percent sure isn't a hundred.

Some guys-a lot of guys-don't believe what they are seeing, especially if it gets in the way of what they want to eat or drink or believe. Me, I don't believe in God. But if i saw him, I would. I wouldn't just go around saying, Jesus, that was a great special effect. The definition of an asshole is a guy who doesn't believe what he's seeing.

Winnie, but I don't believe in sin." He smiled. It was a benevolent smile. Also unpleasant: sheep lips, wolf teeth. "That's fine. But sin believes in you.

person did what a person could, whether it was setting up gravestones or trying to convince twenty-first-century men and women that there were monsters in the world, and their greatest advantage was the unwillingness of rational people to believe.

Ballot papers do not define leaders. Leadership is defined by conviction, vision, passion and inspiration.

Majority does not mean Right. Minority does not mean Wrong. Always maintain a stand for what is right.

Have faith in your abilities and stay committed to your goals.

There was a difference, I had decided, between knowing and believing. And I wanted both.