Quotes About Conviction

I believe in pursuing my own morality. That is all I have ever stuck by. It is my own morality that really matters.

I always believed it would happen and stuck to my guns.

I've never had to do anything I didn't believe in. Sometimes that meant being poor and waitressing a while longer, but I've always stuck with it.

Jesus did not get stuck in intellectual arguments with people. He did not go for the intellect; He went for the conscience. He spoke to that part of the person that knows the difference between right and wrong instinctively.

I have always stuck my neck out on policy issues.

I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration.

I decided that I was going to stop trying to convince older, more established heads of studios or networks to understand me and get me, and focus more on developing relationships with people who already do.

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art.

I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.

I stand by the stuff I say, even the really stupid stuff. I'll find a way to justify it.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

I'm not really into style. I'm more into confidence or having something to say.

There is a very deep conviction in the heart of the people who work in al-Jazeera that if it changes its editorial line, it will very quickly lose its audience. Al-Jazeera has its own style; it has more than 3,500 employees, and I don't think anyone will have the attitude of changing it because they will lose.

Establishing a style is important, it really is, but a lot of singers get so involved with their instrument, and more so than they do in what they're singing. I think you really have to think about what you're singing. You have to make the public believe what you're singing. And in order to do that, you have to believe it.

I have had UFO experiences, and yet, at the same time, I can easily be convinced that none of it is true. It's hard to say whether or not you're a believer. I've been interested in that subject matter, like lots of people. Perhaps foolishly, I've allowed some of that stuff to creep into my music.

It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, but I don't choose what to write about, I don't choose my subjects, they kind of choose me.

I am still not at all in favour of offering any defence. Even if the court had accepted that petition submitted by some of my co-accused regarding defence, etc., I would not have defended myself.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

When you feel so strongly about something and other people feel equally strongly, you have to feel stronger about it in order to succeed.

I am convinced we shall succeed. I have faith in this country, because I have faith in its people.

In order to succeed... you have to put a stake in the ground.

You only need one good reason to commit to an idea, not four hundred. But if you have four hundred reasons to say yes and one reason to say no, the answer is probably no.

Consider one of the most renowned interview questions of all time: "What is it you believe to be true that other smart people you know think is crazy?