Quotes About Conviction

Speak with your words and your message can be distorted... Speak with your actions and you'll leave no doubt.

We live in age of compromise, but if we stand on the bedrock of God's truth, we will not bend with the winds of relativism and faithlessness.

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Ignore fact and reason, live entirely in the world of your own fantastic and myth-producing passions; do this whole-heartedly and with conviction, and you will become one of the prophets of your age.

In any given age it is only a few extremists who are right.

You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

Stand up for what you believe in even if you are standing alone

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.

When you are motivating people to do amazing things, you have to win over both their rational side and their emotive side.

The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.

There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgment as doth anger

He was all show, and he had the conviction, as such people do, that show is the same as substance. He didn't think he was fooling other people; he had fooled himself.

She seems to give a respectful credence to the statement that "God is loveonly to hurry on to explore with real interest the possibility that God is wrath." She can read from the book of Revelation with a ringing conviction in her voice that can make the creation seem only a stage setting for the triumphant thunderation of end.

He was all show, and he had the conviction, as such people do, that show is the same as substance. He didn't think he was fooling other people; he had fooled himself. He thought he saw what he thought we saw.

knowing how she was wrung all her life between her cherished resentments and her fierce affections. A peculiar sorrow hovered about her, and not only for the inevitable losses and griefs of her years; it came also from her settled conviction of the tendency of things to be unsatisfactory, to fail to live up to expectation, to fall short.

men must act on what they believe right, not on what they believe probable.

I'm always right.

If a man doubts everything, then he will attempt nothing. The strong men of this world are the ones who are always certain of their own rightness.

I am (thank God!) constitutionally superior to reason.

It is quite possible that I may be altogether wrong in this idea. My own impression, however, is, that I am right.

I give you better than proof, gentlemen; I give you my positive opinion.

Intolerance is the natural concomitant of strong faith; tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous. Plato