Quotes About Conviction

There is a difference between beliefs that are decorative and different sorts of beliefs, those that map to action.

just to show that you can walk the walk.

Remember that Socrates was put to death because he would not compromise his standards.

You will never fully convince

Once your mind is inhabited with a certain view of the world, you will tend to only consider instances proving you to be right. Paradoxically, the more information you have, the more justified you will feel in your views.

the tendency not to reverse opinions you already have.

You can only convince people who think they can benefit from being convinced.

the highest form of virtue is unpopular.

A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion—in other words, the amount of downside he is exposed to.

because it requires a combination of belief, a capacity for delayed gratification

To accept it takes both understanding and courage.

but I know of nobody who is atheist in both actions and words

When you believe in something, stand up for it, even if everyone is sitting.

Self-respect is the conviction of our own value. It is not the delusion that we are "perfect" or superior to everyone else. It is not comparative or competitive at all.

If self-esteem is the conviction that one's mind is competent to grasp and judge the facts of reality, and that one's person is worthy of happiness—pathological anxiety is the torment of a person who is crippled or devastated in this realm, who feels cut off from reality, alienated, powerless.

Self-efficacy is not the certainty that we will be able to master any and every challenge that life presents. It is the conviction that we are capable in principle of learning what we need to learn and that we are committed to doing our rational and conscientious best to master the tasks and challenges entailed by our values.

It is not what "they" think; it is what I know. What I know is more important to me than a mistaken belief in someone else's mind.

I was acutely conscious of the pressure to adapt and to absorb the values of the tribe--family, community, and culture. It seemed to me that what was asked was the surrender of my judgement and also my conviction that my life and what I made of it was of the highest possible value. I saw my contemporaries surrendering and losing their fire--and, sometimes in painful, lonely bewilderment, I wanted to understand why. Why was growing up equated with giving up?

She assured them,too, of her firm belief, that, at some brighter period, when the world should have grown ripe for it, in Heaven's own time, a new truth would be revealed, in order to stablish the whole relation between man and woman on a surer ground of mutual happiness.

Nov 25, 2016 11:14am Držite se svojih uverenja ako vam to odgovara. Držite se ?vrsto! Nemojte se kolebati! Vaše ideje o ispravnom i pogrešnom jesu vaše definicije o tome ko ste. Ipak, ne zahtevajte da se drugi definišu prema vašim merilima!

The scariest thing of all is never knowing what you're suddenly going to believe.

A successful lie is not fueled by the liar; it is fueled by the willingness of the listener to believe. You can't expose a lie without first shattering the will to believe it.

I'll never understand how a man can live his life With his finger on the self-destruct button, Holding it there day after day, Blinded by an obsession to press it But lacking the conviction to do even that.

We can lie to ourselves, saying we believe one thing, and sometimes we convince other's it's true, with the hope that by convincing others, we can convince ourselves. Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.