Quotes About Conviction

consistent: live what you believe.

You've got to do what your heart tells you.

I may never see my daughter again. My son says he has no intentions of ever coming back to the cursed south again. A part of me admires him for his conviction; the other part wants to shake him until his teeth rattle even though he's a grown man.

You convinced them, I tell her. No, you did or I'd never have gotten your signal. They wanted to be convinced.

You can become radicalized in the sense that you come to believe, firmly, a position that is within the political mainstream—for example, that your preferred political candidate is not just the best but immeasurably better than the alternatives, and that any other choice would be catastrophic.

To hell with you all, I DO believe

I believe you, Tamara, I just don't believe it.

That "relationship" was a perfect example of Callie convincing herself of something that didn't really exist. She'd believed in unicorns until she was eleven, despite all evidence to the contrary, simply because she'd wanted to.

He's not asking me to make a choice. He's telling me to take a stand. I'm either with him or against him. All or nothing. I'm disgusted with the whole business. I don't want smicha if the price I have to pay for it is to stop thinking.

I could tell Hugo was convinced that he would get to walk back up these stairs: after all, he was a civilized person. These were all civilized people. Hugo really couldn't imagine that anything irreparable could happen to him, because he was a middle-class white American with a college education, as were all the people on the stairs with us. I had no such conviction. I was not a wholly civilized person.

if there is one thing ministers are good at projecting, it is sincerity.

The southern standard of niceness was this: You'd never been convicted of anything, you didn't look at other's women's husbands too openly. You wrote your thank-you notes and were polite to your elders. You had to take a keen interest in your children's upbringing. And you made sure your family was fed adequately. There were sideways and byways in this "nice" thing, but those were the general have-tos.

There's very little point carrying on a conversation with someone who is absolutely convinced you are wrong and bad.

I am really laid back and kind of go-with-the-flow, but I will never do anything that I don't believe in.

If you can fool every single member of the audience into thinking you're confident and you deserve to be there, everyone will jump on your side.

I believed in the Catholic position, the Catholic view of ethics and aesthetics, for a long time. But I wanted something not intellectual, some conviction not mental - in fact I wanted faith.

Over the years, there's been some cases where people did come up who said they were healed, but really they were not healed. I do believe it's possible for individuals to mentally convince themselves they are, but that does not deny the real healings. That doesn't dismiss the fact that a lot of people are really cured.

It does no good to be a conservative if you can't sell a conservative message in a general election.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

It's not my job to convince people that Koresh was the final messenger or had this final message.

I love the Greeks. There's no messing around - it's all do or die with them.

We go out there every night, and we fight the battle. We don't care about people who don't think we're true metal. We hope to change their minds. I have total faith.

I never felt that AC Milan had full confidence in me.

If someone paid me a million dollars to drink a glass of milk, I wouldn't do it; maybe that's because I don't need the money.