Quotes About Conviction

I learned something in the years I spent among suicide bombers. . . The boys and girls who are willing to blow up their lives are not the true believers. They are the ones in agonies of doubt. There is always someone with nothing to prove who buckles the belt around them.

But people who believe in themselves make others believe.

Faith is not contrary to reason.

Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.

Faith is reason grown courageous

The frontier will nevertheless survive in the attitudes a few of us inherited from it. One of those attitudes--to me a beatitude--is the conviction that the past matters, that history weighs on us and refuses to be forgotten by us, and that the worst poverty women--or men--can suffer is to be bereft of their past.

We need proof in our society.

Some people consider themselves a shade better because they do not support the wrong; however, they lack the conviction to oppose. They do not realize that by not opposing they are actually supporting.

Surety is the end of creativity.

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.

One cannot escape dogmas—those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague.

People don't buy what you do; people buy why you do it.

truth is just a lie that everyone believes.

Whether it's right or wrong, fight for what you believe in.

You cannot open the pages of the New Testament without realizing that one of the things that makes it so 'new,' in every way, is that here men and women call God 'Father.' This conviction, that we can speak of the Master of the universe in such intimate terms, lies at the heart of the Christian faith.

Believe less in words, but support action.

Never waste your time trying to prove them that you were not wrong, they know the truth.

Stand for what you believe is right inside or outside the ring.

The only two things that you need not doubt, is your heart and mind. You are guided by your heart and lead by your mind.

But of what avail was the innocence of the accused in days when an indictment was equal to a conviction!

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy.

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.