Quotes About Conviction

If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.

My moral compass is strong.

I'm truly convinced that by living up to the values we stand for, we can serve as a moral inspiration for others, just as we've been morally inspired by those who came before us.

I believe that abortion is morally wrong.

I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.

My sentence formally was imposed on my mothers 50th Birthday January 24th 1983. The jury recommended it July 1st 1982.

What motivates me is the conviction that our problems are mainly a consequence of a lack of holistic understanding of the man-made system in which we are entwined.

I was fascinated by what motivates men and women to fight for what they believe in.

I know that I can beat everybody, and this is what also gives me a lot of confidence and motivation for going out there and playing with a lot of emotion.

If faith is your motivation, share that.

We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.

All conviction - and so, necessarily, conversion - is based on the motor and emotional aspects of the mind.

If you have strongly held opinions, you are opinionated; if you don't, you lack conviction: either way, there is something wrong with you.

I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found. And this belief, which mounts now to the catharsis of knowledge and conviction, is for me--and I think for all of us--not only our own hope, but America's everlasting, living dream.

But these cries proceeded not so much from a conviction of wounded justice and deceived innocence as from their opposites. It was the sublime, ironic, and irrevocable justice of what had happened to them, and their knowledge that they alone had been responsible for it, that maddened them. From this arose their sense of outrage and their cries of vengeance.

While it was considered a risky move, I have always believed that faith and risk are synonymous. If there is no risk you don't need faith. The nature of faith is to put yourself on the line, and I have never taken myself too seriously.

The experimental subjects found it much easier to argue against positions they disliked than in favor of those they supported. There was a special power in doubt. Doubt

He moved instead to an investment strategy that required no great macroeconomic insight. Instead, he explained, "As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method in investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.

Until kids find something worth dying for, they don't have anything worth living for.

The whole world worked by subterfuge and the will to believe.

He found he was implicitly confident of a way out…and his face reddened when he realized that it was an axiom called up from early childhood—the conviction that if he cried hard enough and long enough, someone would take him home.

I said no, Jimmy said. His voice quavered slightly under the blazing heat of her glare, but his words were as solid as a sealant weld. Captain Smith says it's wrong. And I say it's right, Kulasawa snapped. Why listen to him instead of me? Because he's my boss. Jimmy looked at me. And because I trust him. He turned back to Kulasawa. And because he's never needed a gun to tell me what to do.

It isn't my job to win . . . my job is simply to take the stand I think right, no matter how unpopular or hopeless or even ridiculous the cause looks, and to have the courage to act on my beliefs. No matter what the consequences turn out to be.

Truth only exists for those who cling to it. Sosuke Aizen