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Quotes About Conviction

I don't just preach; I put my money where my mouth is!
~ Tom Leykis
Thought is power, as is desire, but neither is enough unless it is backed by faith, specificity, and the desire to see to it that it becomes.
~ Stephen Richards
Friday and Saturday nights have a funny way of revealing what we really believe on Sunday mornings.
~ Mark Hart
My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death.
~ Dick Gregory
My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her conviction, her discipline. She would rather see other people happy than herself.
~ Barry Sanders
I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart.
~ William Butler Yeats
When I was a young man, my mother said to me, 'You can't be a communist without being a militant atheist.' So I had to be a militant atheist because I wanted to be a communist.
~ Norman Finkelstein
I'm relentless. My mother says I could sell ice to the Eskimos.
~ Sharon Stone
Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother's voice took away all the grief out of the words and left me with a conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet.
~ Toni Morrison
My mother always said to me, 'Right makes might.' At last, I can believe her.
~ Paula Coughlin
I knew my mother was right, but that didn't change the way I felt about things. People always think that if they can prove they're right, you'll change your mind.
~ Peter Cameron
you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.
~ Rosa Parks
Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.
~ Nellie L. McClung
One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
~ John Stuart Mill
You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.
~ Lee Iacocca
Professional wrestling is in my blood. I may have second guessed it in the past, but I know it now.
~ Brock Lesnar
Ninety percent of selling is conviction and 10 percent is persuasion.
~ Shiv Khera
You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.
~ John Ford
Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel.
~ Morrie Schwartz
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
~ Ken Kesey
It was important to me to believe, because if I don't believe, how can I expect them to believe?
~ Isiah Thomas
A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
~ Jose Bergamin
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
~ Muhammad Ali