Quotes About Conviction

I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing.

No matter how many people give me advice, I am going to do what my heart tells me to do

It is our firm conviction that mankind will live the happier when it has learned to live with music more worthily. Whoever works to promote this end, in one way or another, has not lived in vain.

Whatever you believe, you become.

If you don't live it, you don't believe it.

If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.

If you believe, you will. If you don't, you won't.

I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in.

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

I'm not a fighter by nature, but, if I believe in something, I stand up for it.

Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.

...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.

If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all up or go abstract or take up photography.

We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you?

I deeply believe that marriage is by nature between a man and a woman, but that conviction does not prevent me from recognising that other forms of affective relationships exist.

A conviction is in the nature of a verdict and judgment, and therefore it must be precise and certain.

Once you start questioning your beliefs, that's when it's all over. It is truly doubt that kills our conviction.

The opposite of patience is not impatience, but unbelief.

I have no patience for anybody who doubts me, none at all.

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.

My patriotism and my conscience required me to support it and to engage in the debate over whether and how to fight it.

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....