Quotes About Conviction

They felt that it was overwhelming evidence for something, that it proved something beyond any reasonable doubt, but they were not sure what.

Leadership is the influence of others in a productive, vision-driven direction and is done through the example, conviction, and character of the leader.

I don't compromise my principles for politics.

our points of view—the way we perceive things—are inextricably linked to our beliefs. If

Lord, we need a generation of believers who are not ashamed of the gospel. We need an army of believers who hate to be lukewarm and will stand on Your Word above all else. Raise 'em up, Lord. Raise them up.

Somtimes when you know the right thing to do, you simply have to do it, even though it breaks your heart.

Women are like the police. They could have all the evidence in the world, but they still want the confession.

He talked about the party line the way Catholics talk about the Immaculate Conception

A ciò che si è detto e ripetuto spesso, alla fine si crede.

For we walk by faith, not by sight.

have faith in God, have faith in man, have faith in yourself, have faith in everything; and have faith in faith. When you have confidence in yourself you arouse everything that is stronger, greater and superior in yourself. In consequence, the more confidence you have in yourself, the more you will attain and accomplish. But the power of self-confidence is but an atom in comparison with the marvelous power of faith.

ecumenism, universal brotherhood, and the like. But the very fact of believing implies rejection of different beliefs.

It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he believes as a matter of general conviction, but it is not so with what he utters in the freedom of conversation. In that he may only express the feeling of the moment, and not his settled judgment, or matured opinion.

thought held long enough and repeated enough becomes a belief.

You can only act on what you do know. What your heart and your head and your gut tell you is right.

I'd say ye can't know what code ye live by until it's tested.

She soon reached a point when she could not sit at the table with him and listen to his misbegotten notions and morality with its mistaken examples.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

It is better to die for the truth than to live for a lie. Let it cost me what it will, I will not depart from the truth, even to save my own or my father's life. I will obey God, and trust Him for the rest.

There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Is your faith such a fragile thing that it can be so easily shattered?

Albert is quick, not obstinate in conversation, and open to conviction if good arguments are brought forward. When he thinks himself right he only wishes to have it proved that he misunderstands the case, to give it up without ill-humour. He is not inclined to be sulky, but I think that he may be rendered a little melancholy if he thinks himself unfairly or unjustly treated."[

Sometimes I don't think any of us really believes anything we say; we are just defending our kind.

I have begun to fact-check my e-mail jokes, and my e-mails generally, even though I do not use capital letters or proper punctuation. "we write everything lowercase in order to save time," said Herbert Bayer—herbert bayer—of the Bauhaus school. When I discovered this quote I felt so reassured. I'd always worried that I'd naturally defaulted to lowercase letters because I lacked courage or conviction or a healthy sense of self-worth.