Quotes About Conviction

You know you're doing the right thing if you don't have to tap-dance.

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

So it turned out that power was the quality of knowing what you liked. An odd thing for power to be.

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.

We sometimes look among our numbers to find one to whom we can point who agrees with us, so we can have company to justify our apostasy. We rationalize by saying that someday the Church doctrine will catch up with our way of thinking. Truth is not established by Gallup polls.

It is good strategy to stand up for the right, even when it is unpopular. Perhaps I should say, especially when it is unpopular.

Stick by your righteous guns and you will bless your fellowman. Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible--but in that order.

Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts.

I will." They both knew that was a lie, but Jack was doing

I did not hesitate to tell them that I not only had the authority of facts, but that it was my conviction that our worst enemy was ourselves, our vanity, our pride and our desire for honor.

Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

Nothing so good as bein' right with Jesus, my sister." I was being evangelized by an ex-con.

Never admit you're wrong when silence lies that you're right.

Faith Martin

Faith Martin

Faith Martin

I believe in God, but I don't think you have to go crazy to prove it.

Why do you write? Because I want to persuade everybody to agree with me about everything, for their own good.

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.

I've always been an ironic dreamer, unfaithful to my inner promises. Like a complete outsider, a casual observer of whom I thought I was, I've always enjoyed watching my daydreams go down in defeat. I was never convinced of what I believed in. I filled my hands with sand, called it gold, and opened them up to let it slide through. Words were my only truth. When the right words were said, all was done; the rest was the sand that had always been.

A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks th' Lord wud do if He knew th' facts iv th' case.

A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.