Quotes About Conviction

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing." ~ Margaret Thatcher

Truth in the heart of heresy

If you're still believing, then you're almost there!

You don't waste time on suspecting or second guessing when you confront.

I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen, would not.-Robert Jordan(The eye of the world, Wheel of time)

If something is not a "hell, YEAH!", then it's a "no!

My word is iron, " Kublai said to the guards, as Meng Guang was led away. "Your people will come to know this, in time.

Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

A man of real purpose puts his faith in himself always. Sometimes he refuses even to put his faith in the gods. So from time to time, he falls into error.

When you have people together who believe in something very strongly - whether it's religion or politics or unions - things happen.

We can walk through the darkest night with the radiant conviction that all things work together for the good.

Are you afraid of a healthy argument? Or is it that you are so convinced that you are right that my opinion is of no interest to you?

When they tell me things I wish to hear, I invariably believe them.

He had been raised, after all, to stand alone and always to do what he believed to be right.

And some people have the gift of speaking the truth and convincing their listeners that it is a lie.

She wants him to stay. She wants to be persuaded.

It was then that she experienced an instant of unprecedented clarity, a moment of wholly unanticipated certainty that God was real. The sensation fled almost as quickly as it came but left in its wake the conviction that Emilio was right, that they were meant to be here, doing this impossible thing.

On my best days, I believe in Him with all my heart. And on your worst days? she had asked that night. Even if it's only poetry, it's poetry to live by, Sofia -- poetry to die for, he told her with quiet conviction.

faith in technology was more by practical default than informed conviction

Los mejores están sin convicción, y los peores llenos de apasionada intensidad.

No matter how many tangents he took or how far the tale flew from its starting point before he reeled it back, he had this gift: he knew how to be believed.

He was never quite certain what he thought about anything until he had tested his opinion for seaworthiness in the course of some polemical storm.

I had believed something probably not true, yet it was wonderful to have believed it.

You don't need proof. You just need an inclination