Quotes About Conviction

You need to march your doubt out into a field and put a .357 round in the back of its head. Let its death soak into the earth, grow the wheat, make bread from its blood. Because, for real, fuck doubt. Fuck doubt right in its wax-clogged ear.

Show me, too. Show me your courage and your passion. Show me how strong you are." In

No matter how painful it might be...I'll do everything in my might! So please, you too, act according to what you believe in!

One becomes very strong when one abandons all one's doubts.

The power of your will is everything.

Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all the time.   When

You say a thing so often and so well that after a time everyone believes it. Even, finally, yourself.

For Man had flown too fast, had driven far beyond his physical capacity. Not by strength did he hold his starry outposts, but by something else…by depth of human character, by his colossal conceit, by his ferocious conviction that Man was the greatest living thing the galaxy had spawned. All this in spite of many evidences that he was not…evidence that he cast aside, scornful of any greatness that was not ruthless and aggressive.

There is nothing more terrifying than those who are certain that what they believe is undeniably true.

Suzanna had argued with zealots before — her brother had been born again at twenty-three, and given his life to Christ — she knew from experience there was no gainsaying the bigotry of faith.

Nothing's right .... except what you feel and know.

she knew from experience there was no gainsaying the bigotry of faith.

It'd just be another opinion," Maxine said, poking at the fire with the stick she'd picked up. "People would go on believing their favorite versions." "You think?" "For sure. You can't change people's opinion about stuff like that. It's embedded. They believe what they believe.

If Pitt tells you there's a Santa Claus, hang your stocking on the mantel, because you better believe it.

Sometimes a journey arises out of hope and instinct, the heady conviction, as your finger travels along the map: Yes, here and here ... and here. These are the nerve-ends of the world ...

Crooks and civilians need to congregate every once in a while to reinforce their life decisions.

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

We have all heard of these things before. The love letter arriving as the teacup falls. The guitar striking up as the last breath sounds out. I don't attribute it to God or to sentiment. Perhaps it's a chance. Or perhaps chance is just another way to try to convince ourselves that we are valuable.

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was non ov those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

Es importante señalar que el tan elástico argumento de la naturaleza puede estirarse en cualquier sentido y que el hombre lo emplea para defender las causas más contradictorias y los mayores desatinos... cuando le conviene.

That is the one eternal education; to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child."11

El hombre, no obstante, ¡tiene la capacidad de vivir, incluso de morir, por sus ideales!

he also discovered a correlation between their opinions and the conviction with which they stated them. It seemed that the less someone knew, the more forcefully he tried to state his case.

The human species' ability to believe whatever it wanted was truly incredible.