Quotes About Conviction

You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act.

same thing as telling you that what he thinks is the truth.) Then

Si no hubieras decidido que lo que estás haciendo ahora es mejor que las alternativas, no lo estarías haciendo.

Simplesmente não somos ateus nas nossas ações e são as nossas ações que refletem mais precisamente as nossas crenças mais profundas – aquelas que estão implícitas, impregnadas no Ser, sob as nossas apreensões supérfluas e as atitudes articuláveis e do autoconhecimento superficial.

The single axioms of the ideologically possessed are gods, served blindly by their proselytizers.

people get unbelievably upset when you poke them in the axioms

A 9, on the other hand, is almost always doable. In fact, with only a few exceptions, you can always get a prospect to a 9 on the certainty scale, which is more than sufficient to close 99 percent of the prospects you'll speak to. And as far as the remaining 1 percent go, you can actually close those prospects too, although I'll circle back to them in a few minutes when we

promise you that it's not. In fact, once you become even reasonably proficient with the Straight Line System, you'll be able to take any prospect, regardless of where they started off on the certainty scale, and move them to higher and higher levels of certainty with remarkable ease. It will simply be a matter of taking immediate control of the sale, and then moving your prospect, step by step, down the straight

A reasonable person believes, in short, that each of his beliefs is true and that some of them are false.

Uno de los problemas de hoy es que los necios y los fanáticos están siempre seguros de sí mismos, mientras que los sabios están llenos de dudas.

What I have said, and still believe with ever-increasing conviction, is that human society is always, whether it will or no, aristocratic by its very essence, to the extreme that it is a society in the measure that it is aristocratic, and ceases to be such when it ceases to be aristocratic

La fe es la antítesis del fanatismo. La firmeza del genio es una suprema dignidad del propio Ideal; la falta de creencias sólidamente cimentadas convierte al mediocre en fanático. La fe se confirma en el choque con las opiniones contrarias; el fanatismo teme vacilar ante ellas e intenta ahogarlas.

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.

Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.

La visión del mundo que pretendían establecer los norteamericanos se basaba en la convicción de la superioridad del «modo de vida americano»,[35] asociada a la idea de que su componente religioso era una garantía de su ventaja moral sobre «el comunismo ateo».

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

The unsound convert is willingly ignorant, loves not to come to the light. He is willing to keep such or such a sin, and therefore is loathed to know it to be a sin, and will not let in the light at that window. Now, the gracious heart is willing to know the whole latitude and compass of his Maker's law. He receives with all acceptation the Word which convinceth him of any duty that he knew not, or minded not before, or which discovereth any sin that lay hid before.

Both men and angels were given the highest gift in the universe, that of free will. We have the power of choice. Evil resides within the problem of choice. It is free will that convicts us. We are guilty of being evil because we can choose good. Free will is the very foundation of love, and the cornerstone of evil.

I wish to be certain that I am converted myself, before I leave my converted brethren to convert heathens.

Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.

Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions.

What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?

Believe that you can do something and half the battle is won before you start." -Bill Arkwright