Quotes About Conviction

It is my conviction that when events are forgotten, buried in the cellar of the page, they are no longer even history.

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

Sometimes you make a sacrifice for what you believe,even if it hurts you your whole life.

Just because you don't believe it[] [...]doesn't mean that it's not true.

In his voice resonated the timbre of a man who thinks he has convinced himself of an idea, but masks his own doubt by laboring to persuade others.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction.

We must not get caught up in an emotional reaction against such phrases as 'believing on authority' ... Everything depends on the character of the authority and the character of believing.

Women are always passionately certain that they are right, and neither counsel nor entreaty can get them to believe that there can be any other side to a case than that which they take.

A feeling of subjective certainty does not guarantee irrefutable certainty. It is not the certainty, but the truth in the certainty that makes us free.

There is room for a humble and courageous defence of Christianity. The combination of humility and courage is the combination that Christianity in our day sorely needs.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

the schoolmaster was one of those men for whom virtuous indignation was a necessity.

Supravie?uim moral prin convingerea, pe care nici o mâr??vie comis? nu ne-o anuleaz?, c? suntem mai buni ca ceilal?i.

True conviction is believing something to be right even after it becomes disadvantageous to you.

I believe when it is convenient for me to believe.

We had so much freedom—creatively, technically. No one was watching us, and we weren't even watching ourselves. What we had was our impossibly high standards, and your completely theoretical conviction that we could make a great game.

One of the terrifying aspects of the 20s is the inner conviction that the choices we make are irrevocable. It is largely a false fear. Change is quite possible, and some alteration of our original choices is probably inevitable.

If loss makes you doubt your belief in justice, then you never truly believed in justice at all.

Just remember, Every day of your lives, you must always be sure what you're fighting for.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

But you, Catullus, be resolved and firm.

It was, of course, a grand and impressive thing to do, to mistrust the obvious, and to pin one's faith in things which could not be seen!

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.