Quotes About Conviction

One believes in what one wants to believe in.

But Lincoln was as immovable as stone. "I am a slow walker," he said, "but I never walk back." He conceded that the final proclamation "has done about as much harm as good.

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction — and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.

What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted? (176)

Understanding gets compliance. Only belief gets commitment.

Agnostics are just atheists without balls.

5. Once there is "a flavor of certitude," says Bede, then "pray for the courage to take action." It's not uncommon for us to get to certitude and then realize that we don't really want to take the action. We're

What's most important is having the conviction and vision to move toward what you want to create day after day, year after year, decade after decade.

differed sharply from Eddy's conviction that the human mind, far from being a potentially curative agent, was the cause of disease rather than its cure.

If you believe something to be, it becomes truth for you. Therefore, be careful what you accept as true for it will influence all aspects of your life and your future.

But shooting a man takes one of two things: an overwhelming fear of one's own death, which Nick did not have in the least; or conviction. It turned out he lacked this component as well.

He labored to help others know what they believe and why they believe it, because, as he would often say, it's not a matter of life and death; it's a matter of eternal life and eternal death.

Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human arrogance off one pedestal after another of our previous conviction about our own self-importance.

The dogmatist within is always worse than the enemy without.

It is difficult to trust someone not raised to doctrine.

Negroes were constantly being arrested in the city, for crimes they committed and for crimes they did not, for rudeness or talking back or looking at a white woman, for being in the wrong neighborhood or being suspected of being in the vicinity of the wrong neighborhood. Upon conviction, many of these men were, in the words of one historian, "literally sold to the highest bidders." Convicts were much in demand as workers, and the state, not the convict, got the wage.

Hasidism is considered Ultra-Orthodox, but when it began in the 1730s in the shtetls of Eastern Europe, it was seen as liberal and even revolutionary because of its emphasis of the heart over the Head. This movement was inspired by the Baal Shem Tov (1698-1760), a man beloved not so much for his book learning as for his heartfelt spirituality, his down-to-earth stories, and his unshakable conviction that God is near to all of us, and not just the intelligent and the learned.

Any belief that puts itself beyond doubt nurtures its own collapse.

Be true, unbeliever.

Only a fool demands proof of what he already knows.

Déjalo. Si eso es lo que verdaderamente siente, nada de lo que le digamos le va a hacer cambiar de opinión, y cabezota como es, nos iba a seguir de cualquier modo.

Acknowledgement is possession. When you acknowledge, think or have conviction in something, it actually will come true.

Thought is power, as is desire, but neither is enough unless it is backed by faith, specificity, and the desire to see to it that it becomes.

If you are going to be a doubter, I don't need your negative energy.