Quotes About Conviction

My grandfather died before I started making films, but I definitely learnt this from him: believe in your own judgment and stick to your guns - 99% of the time, you'll be glad you did.

My responsibility is to make judgments about hard, complex issues that I believe to be right.

If something feels right, then just do it.

I do it because I can't seem to live with myself if I do not. I don't know any other way to be. It isn't something you can explain; it is just something that you do; it is something that you are.

Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.

Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them.

People will justify whatever for a good cause.

I don't have to justify myself every time I go to Israel.

I don't think you need to justify faith, faith is its own justification.

If it's not coming from your heart and if you don't believe it, then more than likely you're not going to be able to bring yourself to performances that justify playing.

The worst story I ever wrote was after the conviction of Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay. My co-author and I wrote a piece for 'Fortune' saying everything's going to be different now.

My faith always kept me focused and strong.

If I say I'm the best actor for the part, I mean it and I'm not kidding.

I have the knack of easing scruples.

Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.

Probably the label 'Jesus freak' is fine with me. Because I know who I am.

My laboratory is like a church because it is where I figure out what I believe.

Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.

People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in.

I really knew with every fiber of my being that acting was - for lack of a better word - my calling.

Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.

They'll have to eat first. And by the time they're finished, you'll be back." "With the condoms." "Right." "For the giant orgy you're convinced we're about to have in the backyard." "Dory! Just go!" "I'll go with," Ray said, getting up. "I need a snack." Which was how I ended up condom shopping with a vampire.

Vrijheid betekent niet alleen doen wat je wilt, maar ook weten wat je doet, vrijheid betekent overtuigingen hebben en daarnaar handelen. Anders blijft alleen onwetendheid over, een toestand waarin we ons opwinden over onbelangrijke zaken en in alle gemoedsrust dingen accepteren die gruwelijk zijn.

If I'm right -- and I know that you know I right -- I'm not going to continue going back and forth with you about it. Why should I waste time arguing with idiots?