Quotes About Conviction

If you don't stand for something, how can anyone respect what you do?

Dobar je glumac onaj kome publika vjeruje da je iskren

pravo je ravnoteža dobrote i harmonije, pravo je savršen sklad ukusa i uvjerenja...

The principle cannot be denied: the fiercer the struggle against the injustice you suffer, the blinder you will be to the injustice you inflict. We tend to translate the presumed wrongness of our enemies into an unfaltering conviction of our own rightness.

My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. That's the position I've had for some time, and I don't intend to make any adjustments at this point... Or ever, by the way.

And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better.

Was it wrong to say something no one believed, even if it was right? Did he have to just sit there and take it when no one agreed with him?

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

What do I believe? I believe that two and two make four, Sganarelle, and that four and four are eight.

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.

Simply act decisively Without reserv

He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for.

An idea is something you have; an ideology is something that has you

in general, class distinction was presumed to be dictated by Providence and fixed to eternity. The fifteenth-century Lady Juliana Berners, author of a treatise on hunting, records the common conviction that Seth and Abel, sons of Adam and Eve, were gentlemen, but Cain a churl and ancestor of the churls of the world. Christ, she says, was a gentleman on his mother's side.

Do you know what a delusion is? It's a false belief sustained despite clear evidence to the contrary.

If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up.

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.