Quotes About Conviction

But facts always convince, and another man's opinion rarely convinces.

He who never says "no" is no true man.

Of course, [Albert Camus] wasn't an existentialist, but he was a committed man. He was a man of combat. It wasn't for nothing that he directed the Resistance journal called Combat.

[Albert Camus] was completely intransigent, and that's not at all a neutrality. It's combat, it's a man who involved himself, committed himself.

Our conviction is that human life and limb are a very special possession given by God to man and that no one has the right to take that away, in any cause, however just...

The bounden duty of a true believer towards men who profess to be Christians, and yet deny the Word of the Lord, and reject the fundamentals of the Gospel, is to come out from among them

Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness.

It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too.

I think, like Ronald Reagan, in another way, in a secular way, John Paul II was a great communicator, but he was also a man of deep conviction.

It's funny, because I'm a man of strong opinions and when I make one, I stand by it even if it starts to appear incorrect to me after a while.

All men who have moved the world have been men who would stand true to their conscience.

I'm as fixed in my opinion as the man who thought he was a hard-boiled egg.

Despite his persecutions, Mr. [Upton] Sinclair reveals himself in Money Writes! to be an enviable man. Always the thing he desires to believe is the thing he feels he knows to be true.

God says, Turn the other cheek. So there's no way I could play in a man's game.

The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.

Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.

It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.

A man must not only stand for the right principles, but he must also fight for them. Those who fight for principle can be proud of the friends they've gained and the enemies they've earned.

For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.

Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.

Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.

A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.