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Quotes About Conviction

I'm telling you stories. Trust me.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I won't eat what I can't kill. It seems shoddy, hypocritical.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Gertrude drives on. She says, 'Right or wrong, this is the road and we are on it
~ Jeanette Winterson
With faith, all things are possible.
~ Jeanette Winterson
What are the unreal things but the passion that once burned one like a fire? What are the incredible things but the things that one has faithfully believed? What are the improbable things but the things that one has done oneself?
~ Jeanette Winterson
because if you are raised on the Bible, you don't just walk away, whatever anybody says.
~ Jeanette Winterson
To this motive which encourages me is added another which made up my mind: after I have upheld, according to my natural intelligence, the side of truth, no matter what success I have, there is a prize which I cannot fail to win. I will find it in the depths of my heart.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I call every man intolerant from principle, who conceives no man can be a man of virtue and probity, who does not believe exactly what he does, and unmercifully consigns to perdition all those who do not think like himself. On Providence
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
İnançlar?na egemen olan gereksinimleri, ÅŸuna ya da buna inand?rmaktaki ç?karlar?, kendilerinin neye inand?klar?n? öÄŸrenmeye engel oluyor.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Why do you keep maintaining your ideas are right if you can't prove them?
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Once Right has taken hold of a man exorcism cannot drive it out.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
You believe that you believe, but you don't believe.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Every belief is a belief that falls short; one never wholly believes what one believes.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Êtes-vous si fort dans l'art de la dispute? demanda le curé, vous l'emportez sur les nôtres ! Je n'ai pas disputé, répondit M. de Rollebon, je lui ai fait peur de l'enfer.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
God will not have his work made manifest by cowards
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they'll work.
~ Richard Bach
When I reviewed Hayek's book, The Pure Theory of Capital, it is my sincere conviction that this work contains some of the most penetrating thoughts on the subject that have ever been published.
~ Fritz Machlup
You can't be halfhearted in a revolution. Values that serve well in a civil society don't work in a state of nature.
~ Glenn Reynolds
I believe a lot in what I do and in my work. I believe in me.
~ Lyoto Machida
All work that is worth anything is done in faith.
~ Albert Schweitzer
I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.
~ Lupita Nyong'o
... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.
~ Michel de Montaigne