Quotes About Conviction

Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go.

Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.

Courage is leaning into the doubts and fears to do what you know is right even when it doesn't feel natural or safe.

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

His father taught him that standing up for what you believe in comes with a price but that backing down exacts a toll that your soul never stops paying.

Most of the time, it's not whether or not you have a gun in your hand that matters," his father said. "It's what you stand for and how strong you stand for it.

I am learning how to let my yes be yes and my no mean no without the need to justify why I choose to say either.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

Only in a world where faith is difficult can faith exist.

Faith is only as good as the one in whom it's invested.

I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.

Even though there are no ways of knowing for sure, there are ways of knowing for pretty sure.

Most men would kill the truth if truth would kill their religion.

Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Those who are really convinced that they have made progress in science would not demand freedom for the new views to continue side by side with the old, but the substitution of the new views for the old.

A minority is compelled to think; that is the blessing of its fate. It must always persist in a mental struggle for that consciousness of truth which success and power comfortingly assure to rulers and their supporting multitudes. The conviction of the many is based on the weight of possession; the conviction of the few is expressed through the energy of constant searching and finding.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness.

Cully thought. And she sounded absolutely convinced of everything she said. You see, Augusta went on, I've been sent here by the Christian Ladies Temperance Society. I'm bringing their message to Abilene. Joshua and Sister Lorraine stared in surprise.

The surest plan to make a Man Is, think him so.

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

See is deceiving. It's eating that's believing.

You might not know when it's wrong, but you sure know when it's right.