Quotes About Conviction

I can sell anything that I totally believe in, but I'm a horrible salesman of something I don't believe in.

What do I really think? What do I believe in, without the horse manure?

I was raised in a Christian household and went to a Christian high school, so I believe in creationism, for sure.

I'm a huge believer in clarity.

Love of, and respect for, the humble routine of everyday life and its creatures was the only moral commandment which carried conviction when I was a child.

I really can't get involved with any project that I don't feel a hundred percent I can stand behind.

I know I am right not to settle

If you always do the easier thing, then you cannot possibly remain steadfast when it becomes necessary to take a difficult stand. You must do what you know to be right. And you do know. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred you do know and you are just making excuses because the right thing is so hard, or just inconvenient.

My arguments were beginning to sound a little strained to me, too. I was in the position of a priest trying to sell religion.

An army without faith in itself is beaten more surely than an army defeated in battle.

Folks always believe their own racism is the result of divine inspiration, incontestably valid.

The appearance of sincerity counts for more than actual truthfulness. People only need to believe for a few minutes at a time.

It would be hard enough to win the Empire to Christianity without Christians arguing among themselves about what they were supposed to believe.

Here I stand, so help me God, I can do no other. With the greater consciousness of the issues involved comes a lesser assurance that an alternative is possible.

I'm a born-again atheist.

and the people. Hamilton was indeed a singular character. Of acute understanding, disinterested, honest and honorable in all private transactions, amiable in society, and honorable in all and duly valuing virtue in private life, yet so bewitched & perverted by the British example, as to be under thoro' conviction that corruption was essential to the government of a nation.

I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.

Doubt is the heart of the matter. Abolish all doubt, and what's left is not faith, but absolute, heartless conviction. You're certain that you possess the Truth -- inevitably offered with an implied uppercase T -- and this certainty quickly devolves into dogmatism and righteousness, by which I mean a demonstrative, overweening pride in being so very right, in short, the arrogance of fundamentalism.

But if I start believing that, then I have to believe in your God. I'd have to love your God. I'd rather love the men you slept with.

The believer will fight another believer over a shade of difference; the doubter fights only with himself.

He had no accomplice except the credulity of other men.

Disbelief could be a product of hysteria just as much as belief.

The Communists …' He was impregnably armoured by his good intentions and his ignorance.

Belief dies away like desire for a woman