Quotes About Conviction

W]e must have the courage to break with traditional law, establish ourselves in our own way of life. We must do so harmoniously, cooperatively, and courageously. We must do so with the full conviction that those who are selfish, those who are ignorant— and they are not necessarily uneducated, but those profoundly ignorant—will be unhappy about the whole thing.

No struggle for what you believe in is ever futile.

With love you could persuade a Pathan to go to Hell, but by force you couldn't even take him to Heaven.

No, yo no me arrepiento de nada. Cada vez me convenzo más de que el sexo es la inocencia misma.

But you have to reason it out then and convince yourself. - Yes, but there are reasons of the heart that reason doesn't encompass.

Puede que la verdadera felicidad esté en la convicción de que se ha perdido irremediablemente la felicidad. Entonces empezamos a movernos por la vida sin esperanzas ni miedos, capaces de gozar por fin todos los pequeños goces, que son los más perdurables.

I know where I'm putting my money.

Cromwell was a man who believed in the will of God and the power of an idea.

you can never really get rid of a lie you've convinced yourself is true.

Får jag påminna dig om att du inte ens kände honom för några dagar sedan? - Det är mitt blod som rinner i hans ådror, så om jag säger att han är genom hederlig ber jag dig att inte tvivla på det

The idea that you have to be able to prove something for it to be real has run amuck in our judicial system to the point that these days you damn near need a videotape to get a conviction

not least because he eventually died a martyr's death,

Das ist die Schwäche der Vernunft: wir bedienen uns ihrer meist nur zur Rechtfertigung unseres Glaubens.

If only she would let me talk to her! I'm sure I could change her mind...That's what is needed, to change her mind. But how?

Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, and by the immobility of our conceptions of them.

Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do not destroy them; they may inflict on them the most constant refutations without weakening them, and an avalanche of afflictions or ailments succeeding one another without interruption in a family will not make it doubt the goodness of its God or the talent of its doctor.

Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves and not anything else, by the immobility of our conception of them.

For who knows not that Truth is strong..; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licencings to make her victorious.

Had anyone written and divulged erroneous things and scandalous to honest life, misusing and forfeiting the esteem had of his reason among men, if after conviction this only censure were adjudged him that he should never henceforth write

Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve the Faith they owe; when earnestly they seek such proof, conclude, they then begin to faile.

A soul under the power of conviction from the law is pressed to fight against sin, but hath no strength for the combat.

A man preacheth that sermon only well unto others which preacheth itself in his own soul.

John Patrick Shanley

I want to say to you: Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty.