Quotes About Conviction

we believe in our hearts and minds?

Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer

A cause worth fighting for is worth fighting for to the end.

This tendency to defend a belief structure is true in all cases, even the rational. Never underestimate our ability to convince ourselves of what we wish to be true, especially if we have invested time and money in our beliefs.

From his very first day in the job as coach, Pep went out of his way to appeal to the feelings of his players: demanding solidarity and effort from everyone. Those values represent a reflection of himself. He knew that in order to lead the group he must be consistent, manage the little details and big egos – and convince everyone, not only to do as he asked, but to believe in what he was asking them to do.

It is important in football, as in any walk of life, to appear calm in times of crisis. To hide weaknesses. Pep told them with conviction that they were on the right path.

Depuis une éternité j'étais rongé par un tourment opaque - une espèce de conviction floue qu'on m'avait pris quelque chose et que j'avais cheminé comme un somnambule pendant une partie de mon existence au bord d'un abîme sans fond. Et jamais je n'étais parvenu à en élucider l'origine.

To bring home conviction to crowds it is necessary first of all to thoroughly comprehend the sentiments by which they are animated, to pretend to share these sentiments, then to endeavour to modify them by calling up, by means of rudimentary associations, certain eminently suggestive notions, to be capable, if need be, of going back to the point of view from which a start was made, and, above all, to divine from instant to instant the sentiments to which one's discourse is giving birth.

How numerous are the crowds that have heroically faced death for beliefs, ideas, and phrases that they scarcely understood!

The power of crowds is to be dreaded, but the power of certain castes is to be dreaded yet more. Crowds are open to conviction; castes never are.

It is terrible at times to think of the power that strong conviction combined with extreme narrowness of mind gives a man possessing prestige. It is none the less necessary that these conditions should be satisfied for a man to ignore obstacles and display strength of will in a high measure. Crowds instinctively recognise in men of energy and conviction the masters they are always in need of.

Job's hope will be confirmed by the vision of God: "I myself shall see him."19 Not as an enemy or even a stranger20 but as a friend, someone close to him. Job reaffirms his conviction that he will see God with "his own eyes." This hope causes his heart (literally, his kidney) to burst—that is, it makes him happy in the midst of his trials.

Everyone has a religion, whether they admit it or not. For some it's Catholicism; for others, Vegetarianism or Elvis or Linux/Macintosh/Windows.

To put it another way, I am not trying to convince you; I am trying to convince myself.

Poltergeist activity is so inherently improbable that most rational people simply cannot believe it. And when they see it and have to believe it, they find it very hard to convince anybody else that it really happens.

Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.

He was twenty-eight then. I was twenty. What followed was strange. An attachment? A conviction? I make no case for it, either way. Or only this case: that it was based on nothing and fed on nothing. For the next three years we saw each other for a few days a year, that was all. Wet English winters. Black rooms above pubs... Rather he looked dull, resentful. His eyes in shadow; dark slots.

Nemcsak az volt tévedés, amiben hittünk valaha, de az is, amiben valaha hinni fogunk.

Istenkém – mondta Bogus?awski –, nagyhatalom lettünk a mellébeszélésben.

Una mayoría abrumadora de mexicanos cree con fe de carbonero que la propiedad pública del petróleo o el monopolio gubernamental de la energía eléctrica son pilares de la integridad nacional, ejes de la nación y la nacionalidad. Es la convicción, por ejemplo, del gobierno electo el 1 de julio de 2018.

You show me ten men who cherish some religious doctrine or political ideology, and I'll show you nine men whose minds are utterly impervious to any factual evidence which contradicts their beliefs, and who regard the producer of such evidence as a criminal who ought to be suppressed.

If you want to do something and you feel in your bones that it's the right thing to do, do it. Intuition is often as important as the facts. 663

Heresy is the refusal to speak the truth or to live the truth in the light of the One who is the Truth.

I suppose the truth is that when it comes to believing things without actual evidence, we all incline to what we find most attractive.