Quotes About Conviction

Confidence is the foundation of friendship. If we give it, we will receive it.

Everybody should believe in something; I believe I'll have another drink.

For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

The age of strong belief is over, the good is no longer always very good.

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.

Happy is the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.

It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.

Progress results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.

I don't ever want to work on something unless I feel really passionate about it and know I can give everything to it; otherwise it's not truthful and I hate that.

There are certain roles - say, terrorist roles - that if I don't feel like it's something truthful, I'm not going to do it.

Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Some people feel, you make your case, if they listen to you, fine, if they don't, that's it. That's not what leadership is. Leadership is trying to continue to make a case.

Under any circumstances, if I had to return to Turkey and face the gallows, I will not blink an eye.

If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.

You don't want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.

I've never made a film that I didn't believe in, you know? However the picture turns out, I've always given everything to it. That's kind of how I approach life. I can't help it. There's no part-way with me on anything in any area of my life.

I can strongly say with conviction that as far as being on a TV show that documents my love life of any kind, I'm done with.

If I feel strongly about something, I don't bother what will people say, especially when it is about the country and the Army. But my cricketer friends are all politically correct when they tweet.