Quotes About Conviction

Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.

You do not have to be superhuman to do what you believe in.

Example has more followers than reason.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform.

To make the choice for independent survival, the great man's wife has to become convinced of her own intrinsic worth.

Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

A man is a lion in his own cause.

When an idea is too weak to support a simple statement, it is a sign that it should be rejected.

Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.

With most people, doubt about one thing is simply blind belief in another.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today.

The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile-driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack!

Faith is the evidence of things not seen.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.

Faith is believing before receiving.

Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.