Quotes About Conviction

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Faith never makes a confession.

It is the man who is the missionary, it is not his words. His character is his message.

Ci si myslite, ze to dokaze, alebo nedokaze, v oboch pripadoch mate pravdu.

Her ?ey mümkündür...'?nanç , ümit edilen ?eylerin esas? , görülmeyen ?eylerin delilidir

Che tu creda di farcela o no, hai comunque ragione.

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.

I want to express here my continuing respect and personal affection for President George W. Bush, who guided America with courage, dignity, and conviction in an unsteady time. His objectives and dedication honored his country even when in some cases they proved unattainable within the American political cycle.

Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one would lie in his place

A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and truth in front of patriotic passion.

I learned that you can get away with a lot of shit if you just do it like it's all you knew how to do.

learned that you can get away with a lot of shit if you just do it like it's all you knew how to do.

We think so because other people all think so; or because after all, we do think so; or because we were told so, and think we must think so; or because we once thought so, and think we still think so; or because, having thought so, we think we will think so.

Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse.

There's a brave fellow! There's a man of pluck! A man who's not afraid to say his say, Though a whole town's against him.

He seemed the incarnate "Well, I told you so!"

I wouldn't undertake tew korrekt a mans sektarian views enny quicker than i would tell him which road tew take at a 4 corners, when i didn't know miself which waz the right one.

I realized that even if all the people in the world from the day of creation found this to be necessary according to whatever theory, I knew that it was not necessary and that it was wrong. Therefore, my judgements must be based on what is right and necessary and not on what people say and do; I must judge not according to progress but according to my own heart.

During that summer Nekhludoff experienced that exaltation which youth comes to know not by the teaching of others, but when it naturally begins to recognize the beauty and importance of life, and man's serious place in it; when it sees the possibility of infinite perfection of which the world is capable, and devotes itself to that endeavor, not only with the hope, but with a full conviction of reaching that perfection which it imagines possible.

With all my soul I longed to be in a position to join with the people in performing the rites of their faith, but I could not do it. I felt that I would be lying to myself, mocking what was sacred to me, if I were to go through with it.

There was within him a deep unexpressed conviction that all would be well, but that one must not trust to this and still less speak about it, but must only attend to one's own work. And he did his work, giving his whole strength to the task.

If no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no wars," he said.

Attack me, I do this myself, but attack me rather than the path I follow and which I point out to anyone who asks me where I think it lies. If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!