Quotes About Conviction

Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

It's good to stand for something, to believe in something and base your business on values.

Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all the time.

If in a Christian pulpit you have no business saying, "I suggest to you" No! "These things I declare to you."

A principle isn't a principle until it costs you something.

Baptism separates the tire kickers from the car buyers.

We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

Deep within the heart of every evangelist lies the wreck of a car salesman.

How many people ever get a chance to do something that they really believe in?

Fear replied, "My weapons are that I talk fast, and I get very close to your face. Then you get completely unnerved, and you do whatever I say. If you don't do what I tell you, I have no power. You can listen to me, and you can have respect for me. You can even be convinced by me. But if you don't do what I say, I have no power." In that way, the student warrior learned how to defeat fear.

Being caught by the lord of speech may start with just a reasonable conviction about what we feel to be true. However, if we find ourselves becoming righteously indignant, that's a sure sign that we've gone too far and that our ability to effect change will be hindered.

The difference between theism and nontheism is not whether one does or does not believe in God. . . Theism is a deep-seated conviction that there's some hand to hold: if we just do the right things, someone will appreciate us and take care of us. . . Nontheism is relaxing with the ambiguity and uncertainty of the present moment without reaching for anything to protect ourselves.

Not an unbeliever, sir, a free-thinker. Perhaps you've never thought about the difference. As a free-thinker I can believe what I like, when I like. I can commit you, in your sad situation, to the protection of God this evening, even though tomorrow morning I shan't believe he exists. As an unbeliever I should be obliged not to believe, and that's an unwarrantable restriction on my thoughts.

God said it, that settles it.

Disbelief is a sin, but honest unbelief is not.

We must distinguish the act of faith from the object of faith, believing from what is believed.

the stock market demands conviction as surely as it victimizes the unconvinced.

The fanatic is certain that he is right.

Course truth don't count for much after all these years cause folks hangs on to what it suits 'em to believe and won't let go of it.

But hadn't she heard that for someone who's made up their mind, everything becomes so much lighter? It made sense, in a way. Like suddenly nothing costs you anything anymore?

The distinc­tives of the Christian faith cannot be bartered for the blandishments of a fashionable bonhomie.

In the end . . . . . . . Stand where we feel led. Stand straight, stand tall, and try to remember that other folks might be led to stand elsewhere.

This guy—Joe whatever—hasn't even got the right expression on his face; he should have that cold but somehow enthusiastic look, as if he believed in nothing and yet somehow had absolute faith.