Quotes About Conviction

Crees que me sentó bien cuando Leo me dijo que se hacía católico? Fue tan doloroso para mí como la muerte de Henriette; no me habría dolido tanto si me hubiese dicho que se hacía comunista. Eso puedo concebirlo, que un joven albergue un falso sueño de justicia social y todo eso. Pero aquello.»

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

Dad was alive. I believed Conor, but I still didn't really know it. But now I do.

Emily Williamson never thought she would find commitment so liberating, that her conviction to her cause could promote such happiness within her. She stands in the London sunshine, watching Mrs. Phillips model as a heron, and she feels nothing but gratitude and wonder at the beauty of life.

This book aims to capture, and explore, the outrageousness, inventiveness, and sheer fun that characterize classical mythology. But it is also born of the conviction that myth matters. It mattered for the ancient Greeks and Romans, and it matters for us in understanding who we are: our selves, our liberties, and our lies.

The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.

The biggest takeaway from them is that you can act with presence even when you don't feel 100 percent sure of yourself.

And so they easily suppose that this truce, owing to helplessness, is victory and that they have convinced the other man. But in fact, instead of winning him over, they have merely applied a kind of shock therapy — only it was never 'therapy.' They have smothered the first little flame of a man's own spiritual life and a first shy question with the fire extinguisher of their erudition. By such performances a person can really be smothered and strangled!

abból a bölcs felismerésb?l indulva ki, hogy minden hitbeli dolog az egyén személyes ügye, és mindenki maga viseli a felel?sséget metafizikai meggy?z?déséért.

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd it must be communicated by contagion.

Every life is a profession of faith and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

When we are securely rooted in personal intimacy with the source of life, it will be possible to remain flexible without being relativistic, convinced without being rigid, willing to confront without being offensive, gentle and forgiving without being soft, and true witnesses without being manipulative.

The minority is always right.

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.

Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.

Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win

I would rather be right than be President.

I would rather be right than President.

Sir, I would rather be right than to be President.

I'd rather be right than be President

Sir, I had rather be right than to be President.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.