Quotes About Conviction

S. Lewis, coined the phrase "The

What they fail to reckon with, however, is the reverse of that slogan: if nothing is worth dying for, is anything worth living for?

We could not help but believe in God.

a conviction of exceptionalism and superiority that seems vindicated by the facts, and thenceforth, circularly, shapes perception of the facts. We rule the world because we are superior; we are superior because we rule the world.

They were possessed] of the conviction that optimistic publicity and euphemism had rendered their experience so falsely that it would never be readily communicable... what had happened to them had been systematically sanitized and Norman Rockwellized, not to mention Disneyfied.

I know none of this seems very believable. It probably doesn't even make sense. But for once in your life, please, I am asking you to trust me. Trust yourself.

To linger in the observation of things other than the self implies a profound conviction of their worth.

Reynolds a renunÈ›at la dimensiuni È™i l-a întrebat pe Einstein dac? el crede în fantome. Einstein a m?rturisit c? el, personal, n-a v?zut niciuna È™i a ad?ugat zâmbind: - Când dou?sprezece persoane vor fi martore ale aceluiaÈ™i fenomen în acelaÈ™i timp, atunci am s? cred È™i eu.

Conscience would seem to have but a single office––to convince us of sin––that is, of transgression. The older divines used to speak much of an approving conscience; but this approval would appear to be no more than silence; for self-approbation, as we have seen, is, in itself, an offence. Then, when conscience says nothing we are all right? you ask. By no means, for the verdict of conscience depends upon what we know and what we habitually allow.

This led me very promptly to the conviction that those "feminine charms" we are so fond of are not feminine at all, but mere reflected masculinity—developed to please us because they had to please us, and in no way essential to the real fulfillment of their great process. But Terry came to no such conclusion.

You see he does not believe I am sick!

men don't allow themselves to be killed for their interest, they allow themselves to be killed for their passion

Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.

We lie to each other all the time, remember?' she said with an amused smile. 'Tell me,' Archie said, 'and I'll believe you.

Your light. The one that goes blink, blink, blink inside your chest when you know what you're doing is right. Listen to it. Trust it. Let it make you stronger than you are.

you gain. Trust yourself. It's Sugar's golden rule. Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.

Trust yourself. It's Sugar's golden rule. Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.

it was enough to trust that what I'd done was true.

you must trust your truest truth, even though there are other truths running alongside it

Self-confidence means living out what you already know to be true.

Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.

Honestly, which one of us can rightly claim that they are absolutely confident in what they do and have no doubt whatsoever in their knowledge or decisions?

We have no hope if we cannot prove uncle cynic wrong.