Quotes About Conviction

I forgot they were talking about me. They sound so wonderfully convincing.

Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.

Belief is harder to shake than knowledge.

I may have faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

How forcible are right words!

Soft words are hard arguments.

Work is creativity accompanied by the comforting realization that one is bringing forth something really good and necessary, with a conviction that a sudden, arbitrary cessation would cause a sensitive void, produce a loss.

Before he was seventeen, Flaubert was reading Victor Hugo, Byron, Shakespeare, Rabelais, Montaigne, and early acquired the conviction that there was no such thing as indecency in true literature. For a while, the literature of the schoolmasters seemed to him not to be literature at all.

Christian faith isn't just a conviction, a feeling and a decision. It invades life so deeply that we have to talk about dying and being born again, which is what corresponds to the death and resurrection of Christ.

When we say I won't take this anymore, that's when we know who we are and what we'll tolerate. Until we're tested, we don't know those things. That's when we wake up. That's when we know who we are. That's when people will show up and take your side. When you decide what it is you stand for, when standing is the hardest.

When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree by the river of truth, and tell the whole world 'No, You Move'.

And you were going to do that anyway." "I was, yes." He smiled at

A lot of people know they're right, when what they are is wrong. Having doubts keeps you human.

uncomfortable. Each had followers who were so sure they were right, that their way was the only way. And throughout history they'd fought wars and shed oceans of blood to prove it.

Faith means believing in what you do even when it does not bear visible fruit.

On the peak of passion, there's no place for doubts.

Whatever you believe imprisons you. Convictions create convicts.

I am responsible for what I believe and, I might add, for what I refuse to believe, because the content of what I do or do not believe makes a tremendous difference to what I become and how I act.

Today, people are inclined to think that the sincerity and fervency of one's beliefs are more important than the content. As long as we believe something honestly and strongly, we are told, then that is all that really matters. Reality is basically indifferent to how sincerely we believe something.

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The conviction was as solid as the bones beneath her skin: Even the powerful needed protection sometimes.

Voy a amarte tanto, y durante tanto tiempo, de que te vas a convencer de que ninguna cosa terrenal pudo haber unido nuestros destinos.

Don't be so touchy. I have my faith, and my faith has me." Odd