Quotes About Conviction

Let me suggest that at the core of Jewish God-talk is the unshakable conviction that God's most dominant attribute is His commitment to justice rather than power. Earthly kings lust for power, for total control, and are prepared to sacrifice justice, to hurt innocent people, to hold on to power. But as far as the God of Israel is concerned, in a conflict between justice and power, justice will prevail. God will not do wrong. That more than anything gives Job reason to hope. A

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing; and you don't believe in it yourselves when it comes to practice.

I hate reasoning, John - especially reasoning on such subjects. There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing; and you don't believe it yourselves, when it comes to practice.

Because if you love someone, you have to be brave and tell them. Don't let them go. And if you say no I'm going to spend the rest of my life trying to convince you I'm right. I promise. I won't leave you alone. Because it's not about who's whats or wheres or anything. We should be together. The other stuff doesn't matter. That's all.

Stand up for what you believe with strength and grace and the barriers will begin to fall away. Harriet Green

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

Winning an argument is of no value. What you want is to win a convert. And people who lose arguments are more likely to beef up their current convictions instead of converting to your way of thinking.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.

Since childhood at my mother's knee, I have believed in honor, ethics and right living as its own reward. I find a very small minority who agree with me on that premise.

I won't sell influence and I'm perfectly willing to be cussed if I'm right.

Once a decision was made, I did not worry about it afterward.

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

Once a decision was made, I didn't worry about it afterward...

I shall continue to do what I think is right, whether anybody likes it or not.

My definition of a leader in a free country is a man who can persuade people to do what they don't want to do, or do what they're too lazy to do, and like it.

Mr. Ballard, there's nothing in the world I wouldn't do to have my husband proved innocent. I know he's innocent. He begged me to ask you to help him. He said you were the toughest man he'd ever met, and that you tried to be honest with him, and that if you ever made up your mind to do something, nothing in the world could ever stop you." I

The Prophet (saas) never pressured those around him to accept the religion, nor imposed conditions on them.

The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.

Belief is of four kinds. The first kind is a belief accepted because it is believed by all. The second is a belief accepted because it is believed by someone in whom the believer trusts. The third belief is the belief that reason helps one to believe. The fourth belief is conviction, of which one is as sure as if one were an eyewitness

BE RIGHT OR WRONG, don't be indifferent, don't be NOTHING.

make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities,'" Hunter murmured.