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Quotes About Conviction

It is better to live with great faith than in fear.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
If you believe it, it happens. If you don't, it doesn't. When you believe him, you put your own power in his hands.
~ Unknown
How you react doesn't tell a person about your character, as much as it does your fear or God's fire. Which is it?
~ Shannon L. Alder
Do what you will, but never out of fear.
~ Ron Brackin
The only way to overcome fear and doubt is to go against them.
~ Unknown
Don't dig up in doubt what you planted in faith.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
A fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
~ Aldous Huxley
Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.
~ James Joyce, Dubliners
It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The more I fly, the more I'm convinced that the true wonder of modern aviation is the transformation of tasteless particles into something known as airplane food.
~ Bob Blumer
Those who are most conscious of forgiveness are invariably those who have been most acutely convicted of their sin.
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
But people didn't forgive you for doing what felt right-that was the last thing they forgave you for.
~ Chad Harbach
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
~ Laurens van der Post
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of all restrictions. It means possessing unshakable conviction in the face of any obstacle.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.
~ John F. Kennedy
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.
~ Malcolm X
I think it is important to do what you believe in and ignore the critics.
~ Janet Fish
I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.
~ Umberto Eco
I would prefer to remain in prison for another 20 years than bargain my beliefs for freedom.
~ Unknown
The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not quite sure it is right.
~ Learned Hand
We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.
~ Blaise Pascal
The greatest act of self-revelation occurs when we choose what we will believe, in that space of freedom that exists between knowing that a thing is, and knowing that a thing is not.
~ Terryl L. Givens
I'm standing for real freedom.
~ Todd Akin
Each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.
~ W. H. Auden