Quotes About Conviction

I truly believe

To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all. But to believe in the unseen is both a triumph and a blessing.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. Our

The secret to doing anything is believing that you can do it. Anything that you believe you can do strong enough, you can do. Anything. As long as you believe.

Nobody believes—even the people who believe in him somehow believe in him without believing what he says.

I prepare myself well. I know what I can do before I go in. I'm always confident.

If I die, God will understand.

Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.

It takes great faith to have no faith.

I think belief in your script is essential. I am a salesman. I come from a long line of traveling salespeople on my mother's side. And I think I'm a good salesman of ideas, songs, melodies, if I believe in them.

My experience with them, as well as with other events in my life, convince me that the thing to do, when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing, and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.

My experience with them, as well as other events in my life, convince me that the thing to do, when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing, and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.

on a stool amid his guffawing comrades, 'I stand for

A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.

Faith, to be faith, must center around something that is not known. Faith, to be faith, must go beyond that for which there is confirming evidence. Faith, to be faith, must go into the unknown. Faith, to be faith, must walk to the edge of the light, and then a few steps into the darkness.

It is not an easy thing for us to defend the position that bothers so many others. But, brethren and sisters, never be ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Never apologize for the sacred doctrines of the gospel. Never feel inadequate and unsettled because you cannot explain them to the satisfaction of all who might inquire of you.

The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own culture. In Yeats' phrase, "the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." Intense emotional attachment to any value, any virtue, any set of "shoulds" is a disease, a mental illness, a condition of self-murder and cultural assassination.

Chivalry is first and foremost the worldview of fighting men, and I am convinced that the decline of the gentlemanly ideal has occurred at least in part because men really are flabby—physically and spiritually.

Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit Leaders are obligated to respectfully challenge decisions when they disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting. Leaders have conviction and are tenacious. They do not compromise for the sake of social cohesion. Once a decision is determined, they commit wholly.

While other dot-coms merged or perished, Amazon survived through a combination of conviction, improvisation, and luck.

he just never stopped believing. he never blinked once

there's doubt in your mind, there's no doubt at all." In other words, if you know in your heart that an action is wrong, don't do it.

share this experience with you because to believe that you will prevail, in any endeavor, means everything.

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.