Quotes About Conviction

still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.

Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.

And indeed, no man has found his religion until he has found that for which he must sell his goods and his life.

Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.

A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If men will be bold in sin, ministers must be bold to reprove.

Real men don't conform to the beliefs of others, even when society has concluded on what is good and true, but maintain the integrity of their own mind.

When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.

There is something in the heart of man which will bend under moral suasion. There is a swift witness for truth in his bosom, which will respond to truth when it is uttered with calmness and dignity.

I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.

Believe things, rather than man.

I like to be like the old-school guys. They played hard, man, and they played from the heart. They didn't play to just get checks.

...and it is a serious matter to destroy a man's faith without replacing it.

A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.

That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.

The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.

There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.

I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take care of the Fascists, and I knew it would please him if I became one

I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness.

In our timidity and our shoddy opportunism we are always stirred when a man appears on the horizon willing to stake his all on a conviction.

There is no such thing as a convincing argument, although every man thinks he has one.

The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion

Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it[.

It is my conviction that no normal man ever fell in love, within the ordinary meaning of the term, after the age of thirty.

Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.