Quotes About Conviction

You really need faith in yourself to make art and to stand up for what you believe in.

The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that.

Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn't seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly.

What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?

I will die for the art & what I believe in. The art ain't always gon' be polite.

There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory.

A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how to chew tobacco and how to tell a story.

A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision

It's better to decide wrongly than weakly. If you're weak, you're likely to be wrong anyway.

The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without.

Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.

You are what you are by what you BELIEVE!

Fight for what you believe in, Spencer," he always told her. "Never give up." "Don't sell yourself short." "Even if you're the only one left standing, keep fighting.

never accepted things at face value, nor did what he was told to do. He had to believe something was right, and that it conformed to his principles as well, before he did it.

Doubt finds its way into all men's hearts.

He did not smile. I don't believe in anything, but I'm too much of a gambler not to be affected by a lot of things.

If a man says a thing often enough, he is very likely to acquire some sort of faith in it sooner or later.

Once the decision is out of your hands, there's no way you can be tempted into doing the wrong thing.

By not using it. By not believing in it anymore. Belief, having faith in something, is a very powerful thing

David Baldacci

When ind out, say nothing. When not in doubt, double down on that advice.

Your problem is you don't believe in anything, Lou. And your problem is you believe in everything

box. I'm sure of that.

Each of us remains convinced that our own subjective viewpoint is more urgent than anyone else's—indeed, even more valid than the objective matrix that underlies so-called reality. After all, the subjective view is a grand theater. Each of us gets to be hero of an ongoing drama. It's why ideologies and bigotries survive against all evidence or logic.