Quotes About Conviction

I think we have to believe in things we don't see. That's really important for all of us, whether it's your religion or Santa Claus, or whatever. That's pretty much what it's about.

When you go after someone who has a deep ideological belief set that is contradictory with your own, it's conversion. Conversion is hard. Conversion is miraculous. We have entire religions built around the idea of conversion. Politics is not a religion. Politics is about persuasion.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

I'm not a practice religion freak. I didn't grow up in a religious family, but I have a faith.

Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.

I will tell you that I'm not religious.

I have a very deep religious belief.

I am a person of faith who believes deeply in the right to exercise religious beliefs.

I'm not a religious person by any means.

I'm not a religious person at all.

I was a reluctant convert, and I am by no means a zealot. But the evidence is compelling: to write off wind-power is either ill-informed or dishonest.

Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter.

I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

I can remember when nobody believed an actor and didn't care what he believed.

Labour is at its best when it remembers its moral fury.

When I have been told that my films remind people of Ozu, I have never been too convinced.

I cannot show remorse because I do not believe I am guilty.

We will work to modify and remove some European parameters, but regarding the euro, I remain convinced that the single currency is destined to end: not because I want it but because the facts, common sense, and the real economy dictate it.

If we can't remove a member of Congress who has been convicted of 10 felonies - including using his office for personal gain - we risk losing the faith and trust of the American people that we have.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

George W. Bush, judging by his repeated invocations, thinks that time will eventually prove that he was right. He is not alone in putting his faith in the future.

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

The 'Rule of Three' is simply getting the other guy to agree to the same thing three times in the same conversation, it's really hard to repeatedly lie or fake conviction.