Quotes About Conviction

I like people with conviction, who are in control of themselves. I'm not interested in working with a designer who hires a creative director.

If I get a note on my script or my films, what I say to a studio executive is that, 'You know, this is the film of my legacy, and I never want to be sitting in a theater looking up on the screen and seeing something that I don't believe in.' I will never do that.

It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

There is a value in taking a stand whether or not anybody may be noticing it and whether or not it is a risky thing to do.

The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable.

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

Compromises lead you nowhere. You can't be happy doing something you don't believe in.

Everyone on Twitter - everyone on the Internet - seems so damn certain. Brevity doesn't allow for nuance, and it's a nice complement to confidence.

A great deal of the capability of an army is its dedication to its cause and its will to fight. You can have the best equipment in the world, you can have the largest numbers in the world, but, if you're not dedicated to your cause, if you don't have the will to fight, then, you are not going to have a very good army.

A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.

I can hold space for people who think I'm a nut job. It's cool. But I know from my own experience what I experienced. I know what I learned. I know what I saw. I know what I heard.

Some of my friends said, 'You are nuts.' But I think I am right.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

I spent the majority of my adult life in a business where the object is to make people believe that you believe what you say. I was good at that, right?

In essence, I set myself the objective of doing what I feel is right without having any ambition.

My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never been forced upon me. They've given me a very strong identity as an Australian Muslim.

Our conviction that green cheese makes up a negligible fraction of the Moon's interior comes not from direct observation but from the gross incompatibility of that idea with other things we think we know.

I have observed and taken part in some mental health first aid training, and I have met many mental health first aiders, and I am convinced that even a few hours' training can make a real difference.

Most innovative things are not obvious to other people at the time. You have to believe in yourself. If you've got a good idea, follow it even though others tell you it's not.

Be an all-out, not a hold out.

When he had repeated them often enough, they became a decision.

don't base my believing on feelings. My believing is based on Your Word!

Always take a stand for yourself, your values. You're defined by what you stand for