Quotes About Conviction

It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.

Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never.... In nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions or honor and good sense!

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires ... courage.

An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him.

To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

The object of oratory is not truth, but persuasion.

Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

If I could not go to Heaven but with a party I would not go there at all.

People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

Seeing's believing, but feeling's the truth.

Never retract, never explain, never apologize - get the thing done and let them howl.

Man is what he believes.

I would rather be right than President.

The truly proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.

'For example' is not proof.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is.

What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.

I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch and I will be beard.

Sir, I would rather be right than be President.

He will hew to the line of right, let the chips fly where they may.