Quotes About Conviction

Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.

It's not about if you can or you can't, it's about if you will or you won't. Believe That.

Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase

Never step down from what you believe, if the fight wasn't worth finishing, was it worth starting?

Be yourself and have courage to follow your inner voice and belief.

Always being sincere to the values you believe in gains not only the support of friends, but also the respect of critics...

Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway.

Stand for what's right, even if that means standing alone. Never compromise your standards and values!

Never compromise your values, and never apologize for how you feel.

Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes.

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 ailment succeeding one another without interruption in a family will not make it doubt the goodness of its God or the talent of its doctor.

she had said, so naturally and with such an air of conviction that he had been genuinely touched.

He who is in the wrong believes himself in the right, as was the case with Germany, and he who is in the right supports it with arguments which only appear irrefutable to him because they respond to his anger. In these quarrels between individuals, in order to be convinced that one of the parties is in the right — the surest plan is to be that party; no onlooker will ever be so: completely convinced of it.

?injenice nemaju pristušpa u svijet u kojemu žive naša uvjerenja, one ta uvjerenja nisu stvorile, pa ih ne mogu ni razoriti. ?injenice mogu uvjerenjima nametnuti najpouzdanija opovrgnu?a, a da ne proizvedu ni najmanji u?inak, a kamoli da ih oslabe.

A verdade que depositamos nas palavras não abre caminho diretamente, não tem irresistível evidência. Cumpre que decorra o tempo necessário para que se possa formar no interlocutor uma verdade da mesma espécie. E então o adversário político, que, apesar de raciocínios e provas, considerava traidor ao sectário da doutrina oposta, chega a compartilhar das detestadas convicções quando já não interessam àquele que antes tentava inutilmente difundi-las.

I had always believed that right was like north to my father: a thing as real as sunlight, a place on the map, the arrow on a compass.

You believe. You just don't put a name to it.

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

Somebody said (but if it were not said, then I say it now), that " the laws of our civilization have but one interpretation for the poor and ignorant and for those of wealth and power, there are many interpretations, hence the poor are generally convicted on the one, while the rich are freed on the many interpretations.

But believing something to be true has nothing to do with whether it is true.

Every Navy SEAL is supremely confident, because we're indoctrinated with a belief in victory at all costs; a conviction that no earthly force can withstand our thunderous assault on the battlefield. We're invincible, right? Unstoppable. That's what I believed to the depths of my spirit on the day they pinned the Trident on my chest. I still believe it. And I always will.

The world worked because people agreed to believe it worked.

Would you risk your life for anything? If so, what would it be?