Quotes About Conviction

For Conservatives, seeing is believing; for liberals, believing is seeing.

For those who say I can't impose my morality on others, I say just watch me.

I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.

Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.

In politics, there's a fine line between too much conviction and too little.

The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall intolerable suffering.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Faith Alone is what really matters.

People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you've figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence.

Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and obeys it.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.

Constant repetition carries conviction.

Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.

Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted to fact.

People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true.

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be the dominating thought in one's mind.

Healing and positive life change comes from having the courage and spiritual conviction to look squarely at life's impermanence.

Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.

I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me to the contrary.

I am an infidel. I know what an infidel is, and that's what I am.

One is least sure of one's self, sometimes, when one is most positive.

Think you can think you can't either way you'll be right.

I will not change just to court popularity.

Fear no one except the One.