Quotes About Conviction

'That is the story. Do you think there is any way of making them believe it?' ' Not in the first generation', he said, 'but you might succeed with the second and later generations.'

You have to perform to the best of your ability, and if you have to argue stringently, if you have to persist and to state your case strongly, then you do it.

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

Fear exists because we do not have faith.

will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later.

The first step to wisdom is to be sure one says and does what one believes.

For the young people here: practicality is a good thing. There are times where compromise is necessary. That's part of wisdom. But it's also important to hang on to what you believe.

Maturity begins when you are content with knowing what you are saying is correct, rather than prove that someone else is wrong

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

I have the most perfect confidence in your indiscretion

Once you have confidence in your instincts, you must never allow other people's refusal to believe, or their data to refute, what you instinctively know is true.

He did have his beliefs, chiefly in his own genius.

Muslims should always be ready to struggle for what they believe in, for faith is not a matter of words but of deeds.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

I'm telling you, you did what you believed you had to do through all of this. Not what was easiest or best for you. You did what you did, and you're owning it. And I don't know ten men who would be brave enough to do that.

My father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for.

You can knock down a genuine belief, if you load up with enough facts that contradict it; but a belief that's built on nothing except who the person wants to be, nothing can crumble that.

My father once told me that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for. If you don't know that, he said, what are you worth? Nothing. You're not a man at all.

It was the only right answer.

Faith and trust come from an inner ability to believe in something unseen, to expect it to be there without ever having proof that it is.

I know you're innocent, there is not one doubt in my mind, but I also know that you're not here.

Dear Celestial, I am innocent.' 'Dear Roy, I am innocent, too.

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I watch these specialists, each with a pet theory, each contorting the evidence to fit. I'm even less convinced by them now than I was back then; they still have nothing to teach me. None of their categorizations are fruitful in analyzing my performance, since—there's no point in denying it—I'm equally good at everything.