Quotes About Conviction

The problem with most people who say they believe, however, is that said belief is only a thin layer of solid ice which rests over a vast ocean that is likewise deep with non-solid disbelief.

As more good comes your way, your belief will increase, until you move past it into the realm of conviction.

Ian Brady was born Ian Duncan Stewart on 2 January 1938 in Glasgow, Scotland, he's responsible for a series of murders that took place from 1962 until 1965 in Greater Manchester. Brady and Myra Hindley met in 1961, she was a 19-year-old typist, he was a 23-year-old stock clerk. By 1966, both were tried at Chester Assizes for multiple murder. The trial lasted 15 days; Brady and Hindley were convicted on 6 May 1966, sentenced to life imprisonment.

TC Campbell doesn't need any introduction, the man is a legend in the prison community and outside when this very strong-minded man was trying to prove his innocence for the six murders he had been convicted for. TC went on a fifty-day hunger strike, he ended up in hospital. This man was willing to die to prove his innocence, if he never done his famous hunger strike he probably would have never go the MPS in government to sit up and take note.

I left the court feeling sure that Rose West would never walk free again. That thought made me happy.

When you keep a strong image of what you want in your mind, and possess the conviction that it is yours by right, you send out powerful vibrations to the farthest reaches of the universe.

The word 'believe' is an important factor in you securing your success.

George McClellan's conviction that he was forever outnumbered was the one constant of his military character.

I decided as long as I'm going to hell, I might as well do it thoroughly.

To be convicted of a crime in the Philippines is almost to be convicted of lacking influence.

You take a stand because it's the right thing to do, not because it's effective. I

It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.

It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die." - Steven Biko

Four words that describe leadership," he counted them off on his fingers. "Love. Energy. Audacity. Proof.

You have to be burning with "an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right." If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

It becomes a matter of faith in faith.

Confidence is a feeling of certainty, a natural inner resource that can be summoned whenever you want it.

One of my core beliefs is that belief itself is a choice that can be made of our own free will.

You should try fighting for what you believe in sometime, Jack. Not for a company, or a nation, or for anyone else.

I have strong opinions about ambivalence.

Relate your facts compellingly and your argument will tend to take care of itself.

The gentler and kinder the god, the more harsh and cruel its worshippers, for they hold to their conviction with taut certainty, febrile in its extremity, and so cannot abide dissenters. They will kill, they will torture, in that god's name. And see in themselves no conflict, no matter how bloodstained their hands.

Conviction is a fist of stone at the heart of all things. Its form is shaped by sure hands, the detritus quickly swept from view. It is built to withstand, built to defy challenge, and when cornered it fights without honour. There is nothing more terrible than conviction.

Consider this a warning. Liars will lie, and continue to do so, even beyond being caught out. They will lie, and in time, such liars will convince themselves, will in all self-righteousness divest the liars of culpability.