Quotes About Conviction

Women are more credulous than men.

I'm here today because I hated everything else.

Believe so brightly that everyone sees the beauty in believing.

Its strange how some people ignore the logic just because they believe what they like to believe and ignore the truth.

I chose Stanford for Stanford and not for the coach. I was going to Stanford regardless.

When I did 'Stardust,' I was fighting the studio for things I believed were right.

You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.

My music is just about story telling. I don't have much to say, and I'm not trying to change anyone's mind. I'm just singing through conviction about what I love and what I care about, starting with the very small.

When someone like Richard Branson goes up there and starts doing chartered flights... and you can look back on Earth and see the Earth's curvature, I'll believe the Earth is a globe.

Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts.

I don't personally have a sense that life starts at conception. I don't personally have that sense.

Properly defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future.

Don't do a startup unless you're ideologically driven to make it succeed beyond the economic motivation.

Judaism doesn't recognize gay marriage, just as we don't recognize milk and meat together as kosher, and nothing will change it... I'm not a hypocrite; I state my positions.

Whatever my party affiliation, I will continue to be guided by President Kennedy's statement that sometimes party asks too much.

There are only a few times in a man's life where you have the chance to stand up for something that you believe in and make a statement.

When you make a courageous statement, people start to follow you, and that's nice.

I'd say the biggest difference is knowing you can do something. You can sit here and say, 'I believe I can get a hundred tomorrow'. But it's a different statement to say, 'I know I can get a hundred tomorrow'. That's something I try to think about.

I tend to identify with my roles to such an extent that I appear to be totally convinced about certain statements that, in real life, I would never believe in.

I've said many times that I'm not one of those people who check statistics, follows history, and says, 'If I do this, what will happen.'

Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.

If you step out and do what you feel is right... and you're not attacking a person, and you're attacking a process, and you're attacking the status quo... and if somebody wants to hold a grudge against me, that's on them. It's not on me, and I'm going to do what I think is right.

Both my parents are Catholic and staunch believers. I'm not a Catholic now, but I still carry part of it with me.

You have to stand for the things that you believe in. You have to stay strong inside.