Quotes About Conviction

If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it.

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.

When so many hours have been spent convincing myself I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

Mama, the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

I will not allow books to prove any thing. But how shall we prove any thing? We never shall.

To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.

His departure gave Catherine the first experimental conviction that a loss may be sometimes a gain.

If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.

If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk

I will not allow books to prove anything.

I beg your pardon; one knows exactly what to think.

How hard it is in some cases to be believed!' 'And how impossible in others!

Where the mind is perhaps rather unwilling to be convinced, it will always find something to support its doubts.

A weak spirit which is always open to persuasion, first one way and then the other, can never be relied upon.

Good opinion once lost, is lost forever

Absence with the conviction probably of her indifference, had produced this very natural and desirable effect.

La scarsa fiducia che ha nel proprio giudizio gli aveva impedito di ritenere vera una cosa tanto importante per lui, ma la grande fiducia che ha nel mio ha reso tutto più facile

convincing Elinor, that whatever other unpardonable folly might bring him to Cleveland, he was not brought there by intoxication.

Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.

No has de cambiar, por consideración a una persona, el significado de los principios y de la integridad, ni tratar de convencerte, o convencerme a mí, de que el egoísmo es prudencia y la insensibilidad ante el peligro certidumbre de felicidad.

He may have as strong a sense of what would be right, as you can have, without being so equal under particular circumstances to act up to it. Then, it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.

How hard it is in some cases to be believed! And how impossible in others!

though every glance convinced her of what she dreaded; for though he was not always looking at her mother, she was convinced that his attention was invariably fixed by her. The expression of his face changed gradually from indignant contempt to a composed and steady gravity.