Quotes About Conviction

ALL THOUGHTS WHICH HAVE BEEN EMOTIONALIZED, (given feeling) AND MIXED WITH FAITH, begin immediately to translate themselves into their physical equivalent

By following the instructions laid down in the chapters on auto-suggestion, and the subconscious mind, as summarized in the chapter on auto-suggestion, you may CONVINCE the subconscious mind that you believe you will receive that for which you ask, and it will act upon that belief, which your subconscious mind passes back to you in the form of FAITH, followed by definite plans for procuring that which you desire.

Belief in the merchandise or service. The

Belief in the merchandise or service. The master salesperson never tries to sell anything in which he or she does not have confidence. Master salespeople know that regardless of what they may say about their wares, their minds will broadcast their lack of confidence to the mind of the prospective buyer.

The best way to verify that you are alive is by checking if you like variations. Remember that food would not have a taste if it weren't for hunger; results are meaningless without effort, joy without sadness, convictions without uncertainty, and an ethical life isn't so when stripped of personal risks.

If you do not take risks for your opinion, you are nothing.

How much you truly "believe" in something can be manifested only through what you are willing to risk for it.

But never engage in detailed overexplanations of why something is important: one debases a principle by endlessly justifying it.

The person you are the most afraid to contradict is yourself.

A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion.

You will never fully convince someone that he is wrong; only reality can.

A half-man (or, rather, half-person) is not someone who does not have an opinion, just someone who does not take risks for it.

If you do not take risks for your opinion, you're nothing.

A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion—in

If you can't put your soul into something, give it up and leave that stuff to someone else.

Humans will believe anything you say provided you do not exhibit the smallest shadow of diffidence; like animals, they can detect the smallest crack in your confidence before you express it. The trick is to be as smooth as possible in personal manners.

Sticking up for truth when it is unpopular is far more of a virtue, because it costs you something—your reputation.

cocksure prophet. Where I beg to differ with the great

The strength of a creed did not rest on "evidence" of the powers of its gods, but evidence of the skin in the game on the part of its worshippers.

But there are some things I can remain skeptical about, and others I can safely consider certain.

a free person does not need to win arguments—just win.

Luckily, I had some skin in the game for my opinions

Many of them blindly believe in it.

they can cherry-pick from statements they've made in the past, many of them contradictory, and end up convincing themselves of their intellectual lucidity