Quotes About Conviction

Nerves, he thought, were for people who hadn't entirely made up their minds.

Nope, nothing wrong here.

I don't think anybody can ever be a hundred percent sure of anything in this wicked world, but I wanted to get up to ninety-eight.

Some things just have to be true, Scott said, because they have no other choice.

Because when Eddie's in that fuckin zone, he could talk the devil into setting himself on fire.

Caught up in the all-encompassing idea of their country's "manifest destiny," they convinced themselves that American influence abroad could only be positive and that anyone who rejected it must be bad.

Inspiration and confidence and conviction and craft and knowledge are not what make writing possible. It's exactly the other way around. Writing makes them possible.

When armed squads confiscated eight bulls, seven cows, four calves, three horses, thirty-six tons of wheat, a cart, a threshing machine, and a mill from B. Bondarenko of Aktyubinsk province, while sentencing him to a year in prison, he asked the presiding judge to provide an explanation for the basis of his conviction because he was not guilty of a crime.

It's easy to say "no!" when there's a deeper "yes!" burning inside.

Nadie puede convencer a otro de que cambie. Cada uno de nosotros custodia una puerta del cambio que solo puede abrirse desde adentro. No podemos abrir la puerta de otro, ni con argumentos ni con apelaciones emocionales.

Just as faith without works is dead, so also works without faith.

words, that man got hold of our best missionary

The single most significant factor, he realized, was a sense of future vision—the impelling conviction of those who were to survive that they had a mission to perform, some important work left to do.1 Survivors of POW camps in Vietnam and elsewhere have reported similar experiences: a compelling, future-oriented vision is the primary force that kept many of them alive.

The Psalmist expressed our conviction well: "Search your own heart with all diligence for out of it flow the issues of life.

our conviction well: "Search your own heart with all diligence for out of it flow the issues of life.

No matter how good the idea, there's always an advocate extreme enough to deter people.

truth is only needed when sufficient reasons make it necessary

I think it's important that people stand up for what they believe in.

Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls?

But being confident you are right is not the same as being right.

But if you are hell-bent on persuading someone, or if your back is truly against the wall, you might as well give it your best shot.

A moral compass can convince you that all the answers are obvious (even when they're not); that there is a bright line between right and wrong (when often there isn't); and, worst, that you are certain you already know everything you need to know about a subject so you stop trying to learn more.

When someone is heavily invested in his or her opinion, it is inevitably hard to change the person's mind.

Being confident you are right is not the same as being right.