Quotes About Conviction

We truly believed in something back then, and we knew we were the kind of people capable of believing in something—with all our hearts. And that kind of hope will never simply vanish.

Nobody is easier to fool than the person who is convinced that he is right

Perhaps nothing can be certain in this world, I said. But at least we can believe in something.

Nobody's easier to fool, Ushikawa thought, than the person who is convinced that he is right.

Needless to say, it takes quite a bit of time, plus effort, to go through each stage, step by step, and arrive at a conclusion. Sometimes it takes too long, and by the time I'm convinced, it's already too late. But what're you going to do? That's the kind of person I am.

Do you really think you can read out my mind? she asks me, face to face. I think so, I say, wishing to convince myself. There has to be a way. It is like looking for lost drops of rain in a river. You're wrong. The mind is not like raindrops. It does not lose itself among other things. If you believe in me at all, than believe this: I promise you I will find it. Everything depends on this. I believe you, she whispers after a moment. Please find my mind.

I'm not going to believe in any damned revolution. Love is all I'm going to believe in.

The lesson I learned from this is that it's easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.

me want to have that kind of easy faith, the kind that is like breathing. Faith so clear you don't even think about it, you just feel it.

Perhaps the most dangerous people in the world are the ones who believe in right and wrong but what they ascribe to as "right" and "wrong" is completely insane. They are bad with the conviction that they are good. That idea is the impetus behind evil.

Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.

En realidad, estoy completamente a favor de la resignación. Puedes convencerte a ti mismo de cualquier guión que elijas y eso te tiene como unas pascuas;...

The point is you are supposed to vote for the principle of the thing, not the itsy-bitsy detail about this percent and that percent.

Une femme doit savoir en quoi elle croit, sinon, comment les autres pourraient croire en elle ?

I didn't want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, 'Why did you do that?' This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

When I'm writing, it's because I'm trying to figure something out for myself. If I don't believe in what I've written, then how can I expect anyone else to believe in that, either?

Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

Thanks to Allah, I trust myself to distinguish between right and wrong.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

I don't believe there's two sides to every story. It's black and white. There's right and wrong.

I may be wrong, but I am never in doubt! And anyone who has been around me for even a minute understands that my self-confidence and self-esteem is sometimes overwhelming!

I've never gone wrong trusting my gut.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.