Quotes About Conviction

A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.

I would describe myself as a 'total conservative, a conscientious one.'

I had a total belief in The Style Council. I meant every word and felt every action.

I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.

The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.

What started the ball rolling was a psychological conviction: the idea that something as horrible as these infant deaths couldn't just be random: someone must be to blame. There must be a reason why it happened.

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I don't think we should proselytize a particular religion.

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La gente comenzó a participar, primero sólo por miedo. Sin embargo, tras haber tomado parte una primera vez, ya no quisieron hacerlo por miedo –eso hubiera sido cruel y despreciable–, así que terminaron incorporando el convencimiento político necesario. Éste es el mecanismo emocional básico del triunfo de la revolución nacionalsocialista.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

It's a matter of will. A matter of drama. I have to think of myself as an actor. What is real and what is drama anyway? It is simply a matter of convincing myself and everyone else to believe. What's this blather about the real truth?

The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.

People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.

Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.

I wouldn't back away from what's right just because it's hard.

Taking the time to consciously convince yourself to do the right thing has not only saved you time, it has done something else which is far more important to you in another way: it has created a minor success in the development of your personal credibility—a small but important gold star on your report card of self-esteem.

What you believe about anything is not a measure of its correctness. What you believe about anything is a measure of the programs you have that support your belief.

Remember, the subconscious mind will believe anything you tell it if you tell it long enough and strongly enough.

Remember, the subconscious mind will believe anything you tell it if you tell it long enough and strongly enough. It will simply go to work to carry out its new directives. Your subconscious mind will receive the new direction, create a new, more successful picture of you in your control center, and, over time, will convince you to put the cigarette out, put down the fork instead of eating that extra dessert

Belief does not require something to be true. It only requires us to believe that it's true! That's powerful stuff! That means most of what reality is, to each of us, is based on what we have come to believe—whether it's true or not!

Lord, what you call compassion, others call weakness. What you call conviction, others call dissidence. What you call love, others call mixing with sinners. We pray that we too might be found weak, dissident, and in bad company, especially if it means we are closer to you. Amen.

Ignatius of Lyon said this in the second century: "Christianity is not a matter of persuasive words. It is a matter of true greatness as long as it is hated by the world.

Maybe we are a little crazy. After all, we believe in things we don't see. The Scriptures say that faith is "being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see" (Heb. 11:1). We believe poverty can end even though it is all around us. We believe in peace even though we hear only rumours of wars. And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.