Quotes About Conviction

There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself.

there isn't such a thing as a murderer who commits crimes at random. Either he removes people who stand (however insignificantly) in his path, or else he kills by conviction.

Providence leaves the work of conviction and chastisement to us mortals - and the process is often fraught with difficulties, There are short cuts.

I don't think. I know.

?nsanlar yalanlara gerçeklerden daha kolay inan?rlar.

and after all I am constantly in the habit of being right"—Race smiled into his moustache at this typical utterance

He has a clear-cut, black and white mind, with an exact knowledge of his own feeling—and a complete disregard for outside pressure.

not for any consideration! You can be quite sure of that.

Providence leaves the work of conviction and chastisement to us mortals—and the process is often fraught with difficulties. There are no short cuts.

Sa fii mort e ca si cum ai dormi. Dar nu-ti asezi corpul in pat, ci in pamant. Apoi trebuie sa-i explici lui Dumnezeu de ce vrei mai bine sa fii mort decat viu. Daca nu-l convingi iti stinge creierul si trebuie sa iei viata de la capat. S.a.m.d. S.a.m.d. S.a.m.d. S.a.m.d. Etc.

The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.

You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope. -from Postcards from No Man's Land

Long before any other German politician, he had become convinced that the centre of gravity for the New Germany must be on the Rhine rather than in Berlin.

It's no wonder I eventually started loathing them. Really, who can stand to listen to that level of certainty? To sit through the judgment?

Former Massachusetts congressman Barney Frank once said, "I only voted once for someone who believes in 100 percent of what I believe. And that's when I voted for myself—the first time.

People hear what we say but they see what we do. And seeing is believing.

In her experience, prefacing a statement with "To be honest" or "To tell you the truth" is a sure sign you're telling someone else what to believe—such as what was "good" for her, in this instance.

To know something, he argued, was not the same as to be certain beyond all doubt. And to believe something was definitely not the same as to know it.

I'm absolutely certain." Say something enough and it not only sounds true, it becomes memory.

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Love what you will never believe twice.

I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.

According to conviction, I am not simply what I am doing now. I am also what I have done, and my conventionally edited version of my past is made to seem almost more the real me than what I am at this moment. For what I am seems so fleeting and intangible, but what I was is fixed and final. It is the firm basis for predictions of what I will be in the future, and so it comes about that I am more closely identified with what no longer exists than with what actually is

L'angelo sa di essere indistruttibile. Paradossalmente, è proprio questa sua certezza che lo rende tale.