Quotes About Conviction

Throughout his life, whenever he became convinced that a course of action was right, the desire to follow it had come automatically.

A "compromise" does not consist of doing something one dislikes, but of doing something one knows to be evil.

There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it—it isn't right. If it's right and you don't want to do it—you don't know what right is and you're not a man.

you cannot just be stubborn against something, you need to be stubborn for something as well

I used to joke that we had prepared ourselves for a time like this by living with Mother. The problem with such a state of affairs was not that you did not get to do what you wanted---sometimes you did---but the effort to appease or resist the reigning deities left you so exhausted that it prevented you from ever really having fun. To this day having fun, just plain enjoying myself, comes at the cost of a conviction that I have committed an undetected crime.

you cannot just be stubborn against something, you need to be sib born for something as well

The conviction that racism wasn't inevitable may also explain my willingness to defend the American idea: what the country was, and what it could become.

If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, if we aren't willing to make some sacrifices in order to realize them, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.

Between Republican attacks and Democratic complaints, I was reminded of the Yeats poem "The Second Coming": My supporters lacked all conviction, while my opponents were full of passionate intensity.

I've learned to place my faith in my fellow citizens, especially those of the next generation, whose conviction in the equal worth of all people seems to come as second nature, and who insist on making real those principles that their parents and teachers told them were true but perhaps never fully believed themselves.

The fact that they were still engaged in the fight and, despite setbacks and sorrow, hadn't succumbed to bitterness showed me that I had no cause to be tired. I felt renewed in my conviction that I was where I was supposed to be and doing what needed to be done

I figure if it works, we get through this. If it doesn't, we probably lose. But either way, I'll be saying what I believe.

But I had my legs beneath me now and was convinced I was right, particularly on the more general principle that America shouldn't be afraid to engage its adversaries or push for diplomatic solutions to conflict.

You're sure about this?" "No. But I'm doing it anyway. I have to.

I am losing faith in such a simple thing as despising an enemy with unequivocal righteousness.

It is important to speak your truth, not to convince anyone else of it. Everyone must make up their own minds.

If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off. No matter what they say.

Faith and it's doubting me that she is! But 'tis the truth I be telling ye, Emma. On the heads of the Blessed Saints I do swear it's the truth I am speaking, mavourneen.

I had convinced myself I had become safe enough in Rio to see her. I realized now I'd been wrong. The disease I carried was still communicable.

If there was one thing Snake knew about people, it was that once they got attached to a theory, it was hard to get them detached. They'd screen out unhelpful facts, invent favorable ones, and ignore contradictions in their own claims. Look at those Sandy Hook truthers, babbling about false flags and crisis actors and all the rest. When people were motivated enough to believe something, they were going to believe it no matter what.

I was able to convince them that the Starling case is not, essentially, about extortion, kidnapping, decapitation or murder. It is about postage stamps.' 'Postage stamps?' 'More particularly about the forgery of rare postage stamps, which is fraud, our bailiwick.

visions are almost always believed by the people who experience them.

Justin alludes to his conversion, indicating that originally it was Christians' martyrdom that showed him they deserved to be believed.34 They were willing to die for what they held dear. Of how many people can that be said? Or, to put it differently, how many martyrs for Zeus do we hear about?

it does not have to be veridical. It has to be believed.