Quotes About Conviction

The details were apt and convincing enough, but surely not so very difficult to marshal if you were halfway observant and had the patience to write them all down.

There is a compassion in rational thought that is sometimes missing in religious conviction.

This book is written with the deep conviction that the ethnic cleansing of Palestine must become rooted in our memory and consciousness as a crime against humanity and that it should be excluded from the list of alleged crimes.

The Beast Lord way: often wrong but never in doubt.

I know people who will gently persuade you to be forthcoming.

I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do.

I always tell young people to hold on to their dreams. And sometimes you have to stand up for what you think is right even if you have to stand alone.

I sat next to a young woman on a plane once who bombarded me for five hours with how she had decided to be born again and so should I. I told her I was glad for her, but I hadn't used up being born the first time.

Trust your ability!

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

Well, everything with being vegan and vegetarian is a really big commitment. You have to do what you feel is best and what you believe in and what your body is telling you that it needs. I really think everyone should do what's best for them, and what's best for me may not be best for someone else.

In this work, you have to convince everyone all the time, at different levels, to support your dream. I learned you have to be confident in order to do that.

We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.

You have to believe in yourself and believe in what you are doing all the time.

You need to believe in yourself and what you do. Be tenacious and genuine.

What I've learned in these 11 years is you just got to stay focused and believe in yourself and trust your own ability and judgment.

I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.

I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking.

When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.

There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

Obama seems like he tries to talk everyone into what he believes - and that's part of why we elected him, because he's a calm, reasonable guy - but behind that, there has to be some fight. You have to be able to take a few punches and throw a few punches.

Once you pull the trigger, you've got to throw balls aggressively and with conviction.

I believe in Danny Boyle. I really do. I know that he's not going to pull the trigger on something if it's not right.