Quotes About Conviction

Dogmas don't have to be entirely logical, as long as they work.

As long as I know that my motives are good, I'm Seldom very concerned with the opinions of others. -Mandorallen, Baron of Vo Mandor.

Trust me. - Silk

most people need to believe in something. There are a few who don't, but they're a bit unusual.

As long as I know that my motives are good, however, I'm seldom very concerned with the opinions of others.

Investment success requires the conviction that comes from a fundamental understanding of the rationale for building the portfolio to certain specifications. Unless investors truly believe in the efficacy and validity of an unconventional approach to asset management, the end result almost certainly fails to withstand the wear and tear of market forces. Thoughtless

You are what you love. No? You are, completely and only, what you would die for without, as you say, the thinking twice.

Sometimes he finds out he believes something that he doesn't even know he believed until it exits his mouth

The big thing that makes Dostoevsky invaluable for American readers and writers is that he appears to possess degrees of passion, conviction, and engagement with deep moral issues that we-here, today-cannot or do not permit ourselves.

You are what you love. No? You are, completely and only, what you would die for without .. thinking twice.

I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do—a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.

Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

Strong reasons make strong actions.

When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies

For truth can never be confirmed enough, Though doubts did ever sleep.

Let me hear you speak farther. I have spirit to do anything that appears not foul in the truth of my spirit.

It is I am sure a kind of unorthodoxy, and considered thus by some," I hear my master say (I resume my station, still flustered and with a madly working heart), "but it is my conviction that the more religiously and intellectually enlightened a Negro is made, the better for himself, his master, and the commonweal.

Truth sometimes does not matter, Quinn. There are those who have decided what they think your brother is, and nothing will persuade them differently, truth be damned.

There was a sense of gravity and richness to his teaching because you knew he really believed what he was saying.

Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.

direct, so bright and clear of eye and manner, that he found it hard to believe she was any man's game. But even if she were, the Biblical analogy that had occurred to him in the mine that day still held good. But how to bring her to repentance? How make a person aware of sin when their unawareness was so complete? It

Having a husband, it seems to me, is a small matter like going to church. Either you trust in something or you do not. If you do not, then there's no benefit in going to church at all, is there? But if you do believe in him, then you've no excuse to be asking for proofs all the time.

I was so untutored as to suppose that all I had to do was to think out what was right and express it fearlessly.