Quotes About Conviction

All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before one single word — faith.

If I had believed in a God of rewards and punishments, I might have lost courage in battle

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

Success is the most convincing talker in the world.

A man does not have himself killed for a half pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

If you have more than one reason to do something (choose a doctor or veterinarian, hire a gardener or an employee, marry a person, go on a trip), just don't do it. It does not mean that one reason is better than two, just that by invoking more than one reason you are trying to convince yourself to do something. Obvious decisions (robust to error) require no more than a single reason.

My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

Desperate, Tillman confessed to charges of murder and rape for which he wasn't responsible - a few weeks later, the CPD caught the real killer - but Burge still turned Tillman's false confession over to Daley's prosecutors, and Tillman was convicted.

The job in getting people to fight and have faith is in making them believe in what life has made them feel, making them feel that their feelings are as good as others'.

Don't fear, just live right.

We can be walking witnesses and standing sermons to which objective onlookers can say a quiet amen.

There are those who say that seeing is believing. I am telling you that believing is seeing.

Belief creates behaviors.

If one-tenth of what you believe is true, you ought to be ten times as excited as you are.

Being a villain, it seems, provides a certain amount of indisputable clarity." -- Commander Invincible

For the rest of your life you honestly believe it was your mixture which caused the recovery.

Faith is something you decide to do, not something you feel like doing." So

If I had my time over I would do the same again, so would any man who dares call himself a man.

As a leader, one must sometimes take actions that are unpopular, or whose results will not be known for years to come. There are victories whose glory lies only in the fact that they are known to those who win them. This is particularly true of prison, where you must find consolation in being true to your ideals, even if no one else knows of it.

Andrew or courage.