Quotes About Conviction

The happiness of many marriages is founded on the old proverb: Suspicion doesn't amount to conviction.

An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons - marriage, or meat, or beer, or cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning.

She sure as shootin' hoped that proved to be true.

There are and will be those who think I have gone overboard. Let them rest assured that this assessment is correct, probably beyond their wildest imagination, and that I will continue to do so.

You do not have to be the one to do this." "It has to be someone, Rafe! Why not me? Yes, I could turn away and ignore everything in my heart. Leave it to someone else! Maybe hundreds have! But maybe I choose to step forward, instead of stepping back.

Then make your decision and live by it.

All I knew that night was that I believed in something and couldn't express it, while your team believed in nothing but knew how to say it—in other men's words.

It was his nature to believe anything, before he would believe he could be wrong.

The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.

My mother would mock me. God is merely a weakness for people who need to believe.

Faith is a choice

Be a good egg and speak up.

Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.

Scepticism is always a back road leading to some credo or other.

A mind unconvinced is a mind closed.

It takes courage and conviction to succeed in the spotlight.

She realised that she hadn't tried to end her life because she was miserable, but because she had managed to convince herself that there was no way out of her misery.

To see something, you have to believe in it. Really believe it. That's the first elf rule. You can't see something you don't believe in. Now try your hardest and see if you can see what you have been looking for.

I may have not been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.

A Camus quote came to her, right in the middle of it. I may have not been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.

She realised that she hadn't tried to end her life because she was miserable, but because she had managed to convince herself that there was no way out of her misery.

Nora had also felt that simply to be in his presence was to commit some kind of invisible crime. Ever since the ligament injury that thwarted his rugby career, he'd had a sincere conviction that the universe was against him. And Nora was, at least she felt, considered by him as part of that same universal plan. From that moment in that car park she had felt she was really just an extension of the pain in his left knee. A walking wound.

Sa nu crezi ca stii. Sa stii ca tu crezi.

I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what did not. -Camus