Quotes About Conviction

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

You either stand for Jesus or you stand for all that He died to repudiate.

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

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....

Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.

Hitler believed nothing, so he was free to believe in anything.

It's funny how you use logic in an argument and think it will persuade me.

I once took a city with five men and a lame goat. If I can do that, you can convince the necromancers to pledge themselves to you. Do this or die.

Often wrong, but never in doubt. Once you decide what you need to do and how to go about it, you can't afford to second-guess yourself. You just do it." The

We had a saying in the army," Tom Buckwell said. "Often wrong, but never in doubt. Once you decide what you need to do and how to go about it, you can't afford to second-guess yourself. You just do it.

Greedy can be bought, timid can be frightened, smart can be persuaded, but the zealots are immune to money, fear, or reason.

Rectitude is the power of deciding upon a certain course of conduct in accordance with reason, without wavering—to die when it is right to die, to strike when to strike is right.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed. – Voltaire

Doubts can lead to deeper faith by forcing us to look more closely at what we believe. And why.

I can't believe in your other attachment.

Nikada ne možete biti sigurni u nešto sve vreme. Možete imati samo odvažnosti i snage da u?inite ono što mislite da je pravo. Možda ?e se to kasnije pokazati kao neta?no, ali vi ste ga bar u?inili, a to je ono što je važno.

Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.

Well, he used to say that only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed. He also said that nothing had to be true, but everything had to sound true

You don't beat refusal to believe in a frontal attack.

There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.