Quotes About Conviction

I stand behind all my tweets. If I tweeted it and I said it, I am not apologizing for it.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Twice I let people talk me out of good ideas.

Don't think twice. If it's a character that you feel compelled to play and story that you feel needs to be told, don't think twice.

Courage, garrulousness and the mob are on our side. What more do we want?

The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do.

Psychologically speaking, one may say that the hypocrite is too ambitious; not only does he want to appear virtuous before others, he wants to convince himself.

You have to be a political leader, willing to lose an election if you want to do what's right.

We believe what we want to believe, and once we believe something, it becomes a self-fulfilling truth.

I think the most important thing is to, without belligerence, stand up for what want. Argue compellingly if someone tries to change your script.

Leaders don't convince people to follow them. Leaders walk forward alone and those who want to go down their path decide to follow.

That's fairly common. We don't believe anything we don't want to believe.

You do a movie if it's good and if you want to do it. It doesn't matter if it's small or big or expensive or cheap. If you want to say the words, you're gonna say them. You can't strategize.

Every single person wants to do it, don't hate me because I had the guts to follow my heart!

In time they could not even fly after their hats. Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no longer believed.

If the right thing comes along and you get an opportunity to be a part of something you believe in, and you think it's cool and want to put your name on it, then you should.

She wants to believe my excuses so bad. Every time I lie, she wants to believe me so much.

I treat politics kind of like my religion. It's something I believe in, but I don't want to have to make a living at it, because if you make a living at it, you somehow become dishonest.

I am persistent about everything I believe in. If there's a film I want to do, a record, a Broadway show - I do it. Everybody can hate it but I will still do it. I am fearless that way.

If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.

If I had to be anything," he told her, "I'd probably be a socialist, but I don't want to be anything.

If I believe that abortion is wrong, and I want to convince you that it's wrong, there's no reason I should recount to you my personal narrative of how I came to believe this.

Yeah, but Jesus is the most important thing to me and I want to be bold about it.

Thoughts would go in and out of my mind, but I didn't want to believe that he could have done it.