Quotes About Conviction

Courage is leaning into the doubts and fears to do what you know is right even when it doesn't feel natural or safe.

It takes no courage to say or do what's popular.

Question the bravery. Say it's not courage. Call it a passion.

Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.

Spiritual cowardice is not only weakness but wickedness.

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on.

In politics guts is all.

When we know what we want to prove we go out and find our facts. They are always there.

When moral courage feels that it is in the right there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.

I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief matched by a strength of willpower.

Leadership is about having the courage to go against the advice of the so-called experts and doing what your instinct tells you is right.

My dad always, he helped me by not helping me. He always said, being a producer, it was all about conviction.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the truth.

The annoying thing about being an atheist is that you'll never have the satifaction of saying to believers, 'I told you so.'

With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.

Given the irreversibility of the death penalty, the possibility of a wrongful conviction can never be overstated.

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.

The one undeniable talent that talking heads have is their skill at telling a compelling story with conviction, and that is enough.

Some things just have to be believed to be seen.

Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he did meet skeptics he could not convince and sinners he could not convert. Forgiveness of sins requires an act of will on the receiver's part, and some who heard Jesus' strongest words about grace and forgiveness turned away unrepentant.

Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no opportunity for faith either.

Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?