Quotes About Conviction

Generally, people don't change their minds about fundamentally deeply held beliefs; it doesn't happen in an instant - it's a process.

I don't think you can question your instinct; you should always trust it.

I'm instinctively a Conservative.

You either back your instincts or you hold off - and you're more likely to back your instincts if you're confident.

If you trust your instincts and it doesn't turn out right, OK. But if you compromise and defer to what somebody else is telling you and it doesn't work out, that feeling gnaws at me.

After I finished my degree in Mass Communication in Manipal, I enrolled for a cinematography course in Pune Film Institute. That is when Nandini Reddy, the director of 'Ala Modalaindi,' convinced me to act.

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

Whatever you think of George W. Bush, he left office with his faith intact, and I respect that.

I think my moral ground is very much intact.

If you truly believe something, and it's incorrect, that doesn't mean you don't have integrity.

If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that.

If you speak your mind and if it is true what you're saying, then I think the integrity of what you're saying carries through.

We have so little control as actors, but there are ways you can maintain your integrity. I have to say I've never compromised myself in this career once. I've never done something I didn't believe in.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

The only way people can really be excellent is with truth, so you have to have a CFO who will have the intellectual capacity and conviction to tell you you're wrong and try to support that with data.

A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot.

You are never to allow a shadow of doubt to enter your mind that the Creator intended you to win in life's battle.

If you don't like my work in 'The Affair,' that's fine, but I'll stand by the work because I felt that everything that went on camera was what I intended to go on camera.

If something doesn't feel right comedically I won't budge on it. You just have to dig your heels in and fight for it. And I mean fight quite intensely.

I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this.

You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you've shown up.

Any senator who commits himself or herself to something, should be man or woman enough to take a stand... If they give their word to support something that they are ashamed of, then that is a hypocrisy, and could be interpreted as not wanting to be associated with the matter.

Belief breeds reality.

Attitude' was the word they used for someone who knew what they liked.