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Quotes About Conviction

The easiest way to destroy a man's faith is to destroy his morality.
~ Melvin J. Ballard
Give a man a noble cause and he would fight to the death for what he believed in,but get the woman he loves to leave him and his once honourable principles would cease to be quite so important.
~ Mike Gayle
Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about - you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.
~ Oswald Chambers
It takes balls to execute an innocent man.
~ Rick Perry
One man in the right will finally get to be a majority.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.
~ Bruce Barton
Mister, I ain't a boy, no I'm a man, and i believe in a promised land.
~ Bruce Springsteen
A man who has nothing he is willing to die for has nothing worth living for
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
~ Herman Melville
A man who has bought a theory will fight a vigorous rearguard action against the facts.
~ Joseph Alsop
Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.
~ Samuel Butler
The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man's way of life.
~ Walter Lippmann
An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
~ William Jennings Bryan
In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate the man who has convinced them.
~ Epictetus
All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It is my faith and conviction that the Constitution came not alone of the brain and purpose of man, but of the inspiration of God.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Never argue with a man whose job depends on not being convinced.
~ H. L. Mencken
Love a man who'll bleed to make a point. (Candy)
~ Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim
In order to win a man to your cause, you must first reach his heart, the great high road to his reason.
~ Abraham Lincoln
To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear... in such a way that never a doubt, never the slightest doubt, could rise in the heart of the simplest man.
~ Albert Camus
The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.
~ Albert Camus