Quotes About Conviction

PROHIBITIONIST. The sort of man one wouldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.

Belief stains darker, imprints deeper than truth.

If you want to make a man hate you fiercely and forever, prove to him something he does not wish to believe.

Everybody should believe in something. I believe I'll have another coffee.

Intellectual courage is the foundation of good judgment. It is a balance between the strength of conviction and flexibility.

If it want for faith, thare would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with enny safety, if it want for faith.

...[F]aith... A passionate intuition...

Let your faith have the same beat as your heart.

If I'm to be damned for what I've done, I'll be damned in full and not by halves.

People believe what they are told.

Believing a thing does not make it true.

Our faith is not assured, because faith can never be, it must never be a certainty.

John Whipple did not allow his anger at such treatment to obscure his judgment. In years of trading around the Pacific he had often met obstinate men and the cruel situations which they produce, and he had learned that in such confrontations his only chance of winning lay in doing exactly what in conscience ought to be done. It was by reliance upon this conviction that he had quietly made his way in such disparate jungles as Valparaiso, Batavia, Singapore and Honolulu.

honor included not only physical and moral courage but also a daring commitment to central beliefs

Never ask such a question!" Rhodes exploded. "Anything can be done if men of good principle determine that it shall be done. Have you the courage to strike for immortal goals?" In

It's the good minds that find difficulty in committing themselves

THE MAN OF TRUTH never departs from the divine principles which he has espoused. He may be threatened with sickness, poverty, pain, loss of friends and position, yea, even with immediate death, yet he does not desert the principles which he knows to be eternally true. To him, there is one thing more grievous, more to be feared and shunned than all the above evils put together, and that is—the desertion of principle.

The great stumbling-block is not the habit itself, it is the belief in the impossibility of overcoming it. How can a man overcome a bad habit so long as he is convinced that it is impossible? How can a man be prevented from overcoming it when he knows that he can, and is determined to do it?

So speak to influence. Don't speak to call a flower yellow. Speak

Nobody questions anything if you have confidence, intelligence, and you are proud of your product.

Do you really think you are going to change anyone's mind?

And they would not believe me precisely because they knew what I said was true.

People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.

Gods are like people. They believe anything if you tell them right way.