Quotes About Conviction

If you have the ability to convince somebody of something that you don't necessarily think is the case, it's a valuable asset. Not that I'm, like, a pathological liar, but we spend most of the day not fully being honest, you know?

I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions.

You have to believe in something, and you have to believe in the things that you feel and find value in those things, and not be swayed all the time. Maybe you're gonna get swayed 90% of the time, to keep those things submerged, but you can't distrust yourself 100% of the time.

People don't get angry at you for shock value. People get angry at you when you affect something that is at their core, whether it be guns or religion or whatever. Their belief system.

My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system.

All I can go on is my own value system.

Honestly, what keeps me grounded is my faith and my value system.

My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system. And to suggest that I can somehow separate and divorce that from the rest of me is not possible.

Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

I believe very strongly that in this world you have to have values and you have to stand up for your interests and if you don't do those things you're not going to get anywhere.

My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.

what she said, or she did not. And if she believed it, she ought to be able to live it. On through the night hours she struggled. She would have left her bed and gone downstairs to pray, but she was afraid she would disturb Grandmother Withers.

When you don't know what you believe, everything becomes an argument. Everything is debatable. But when you stand for something, decisions are obvious.

Standing for something isn't just about writing it down. It's about believing it and living it.

The best lies to tell, said Jane, are the ones people want to believe.

Y qué es un héroe? [...] - Alguien que se cree un héroe y acierta. O alguien que tiene el coraje y el instinto de la virtud, y por eso no se equivoca nunca, o por lo menos no se equivoca en el único momento en que importa no equivocarse, y por lo tanto no puede no ser un héroe [...]

Nowhere does the Bible say that one must wait for change. Jesus did not ask people to wait. He expected and effected change right away. Not everything, of course, but something can be changed as the result of every session, including the first. There is a solution to every unsolved problem; this is the Christian conviction that emerges from I Corinthians 10:13 and II Timothy 3:16, 17.

Para vencer en una discusión deliberativa, no intentes superar a tu contrincante. En lugar de eso, trata de salirte con la tuya.

Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.

Here's what I say - when you don't know or can't know the answer to a question, why not believe the answer you like best? It's as valid as any of the others - and it might be right.

Right is right, even if you're alone.

She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.

do it from the heart or not at all.