Quotes About Conviction

Nothing of worthy or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.

My face is set, my gait is fast, my goal is Heaven, my road is narrow, my way is rough, my companions are few, my guide is reliable, my mission is clear. I cannot be bought, compromised, detoured, lured away, turned back, diluted, or delayed. I will not flinch in the face of sacrifice, hesitate in the presence of adversity, negotiate ... at the table of the enemy, ponder at the pool of popularity, or meander in a maze of mediocrity. I won't give up, shut up, let up, or slow up.

If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag.

I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard.

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

Show me a person who is not an extremist about some things, who is a "middle-of-the-roader" in everything, and I will show you someone who is insecure.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

(Conviction) is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only by ignoring the radical describers of his environment, or by hating them, as convinced men have hated, say, Darwin and Freud, as agents of some devil.

Every life is a possession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent propaganda.

Soon after a hard decision something inevitably occurs to cast doubt. Holding steady against that doubt usually proves the decision.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. The former would seem most necessary for the camp; the latter for the council; but to constitute a great man, both are necessary.

Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority.

I wish I was as sure of anything as Macaulay is of everything.

It is fairly obvious that those who are in favour of the death penalty have more affinity with assassins than those who are not.

One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith.