Quotes About Conviction

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but NEVER hit softly.

In a republic, to be successful we must learn to combine intensity of conviction with a broad tolerance of difference of conviction. Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.

Yet it is curious to see how a really truthful man will forget his misses, and his hits at close quarters, and, by dint of constant repetition, will finally persuade himself that he is in the habit of killing his game at three or four hundred yards.

You can't be 100 per cent certain of anything.

My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are.

Miracles are signs not to them that believe, but to them that believe not.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

Godly lives convince more than miracles themselves.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

Passion against Reason, Reason against Faith, Faith against the Devil, and my Conscience against all.

If reason is a rebel unto faith, so is passion unto reason.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things.

In the case of a Black woman like myself, the most classic trope of all is that we are angry or we are aggressive. It's very difficult to navigate that because in order to be a leader, and particularly a senior leader, you need to be able to speak with conviction to direct people.

You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

In one way or another, all my songs are about the necessity for trust.