Quotes About Conviction

I feel every project that I have done in my life, which is acting oriented, has been something that I believed in.

Every director has a sensibility and style, and what works is his originality and conviction.

I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.

Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing - not only by our words - that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

My father married once. I married once. This is a conviction of ours. This is the way we grew up.

It's OK to be outspoken about your faith.

I am an outspoken person. I believe in what I say.

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts.

My father taught us to serve with strength and clear-minded conviction, but to do so with humility, to work in the Oval Office on behalf of the American people with a servant's heart.

I want, overall, to trust what I know is right. There have been many times when I haven't.

Sincerity is all that counts -- it's a widespread modern heresy. Think again. Bolsheviks are sincere. Fascists are sincere. Lunatics are sincere. People who believe the earth is flat are sincere. They can't all be right.

When you're uncomfortable with the words you're using, it becomes obvious to your listeners. When they recognize your discomfort, their defenses are likely to go up making the continuation of the conversation or sales process more challenging than when you are comfortable with what you're saying. This is where dedication to your craft becomes very important.

I'll stand my ground and I won't back down...

How difficult it is for any of us to listen to our own voice or maintain our own beliefs in the presence of others.

You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.

A belief that doesn't require evidence is still only a belief.

Just because you believe something is true doesn't automatically make it true.

The only faith that really matters is the one that you believe in.

Competence is an ability; confidence is the belief in that ability.

I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.

A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.

I pledge no fudge of compromise', said Arthur Scargill, 'and no carrots of redundancy'. That would make a nice epitaph for him. 'He pledged no fudge'.

Look, I'm a person, an individual with a character and part of my character is about what I believe in and part of my beliefs obviously is a religious conviction. I simply hesitate whenever I get drawn into this territory because I have found, over time, that it either leads to people misunderstanding the basis upon which you are taking decisions or it leads to people trying to colonise God or religion for one particular political position. I make no claims to that at all.

Our ultimate weapon is not our guns but our beliefs.