Quotes About Conviction

One who claims to be a skeptic of one set of beliefs is actually a true believer in another set of beliefs.

Augustine was right when he said that we love the truth when it enlightens us, but we hate it when it convicts us.

Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying--but of acting against one's conviction.

There are times in a person's life when he or she must make a choice to believe. I choose to believe the sun will rise tomorrow. I also choose to believe that if you go to bed hungry you will wake up ready to eat. I've met a group of men in a faraway country who choose to believe that if you stand on a tree stump for an hour you will gain sympathy for trees. I am already quite sympathetic to trees, so I choose to think they are bonkers.

Believe, it is our best defense.

Belief Initiates and guides action— Or it does nothing.

We can, Each of us, Do the impossible As long as we can convince ourselves That it has been done before.

I believe that people believe what they believe they believe.

Here again the Japanese method of interior decoration differs from that of the Occident, where we see objects arrayed symmetrically on mantelpieces and elsewhere. In Western houses we are often confronted with what appears to us useless reiteration. We find it trying to talk to a man while his full-length portrait stares at us from behind his back. We wonder which is real, he of the picture or he who talks, and feel a curious conviction that one of them must be fraud.

Men with sound eyes need not concern themselves with the arguments of blind men to prove that seeing cannot occur.

When he woke his conviction of failure was somehow less inevitable.

It feels like we're holding on to something because we want to believe it,

Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway,And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

I say to you in all sadness of conviction, that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.

I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilisation is dead. Period.

Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.

Believe with all of your heart that you will do what you were made to do.

Courage results when one's convictions are bigger than one's fears.

You cannot expect others to believe in you until you believe in yourself.

I would rather suffer with truth than celebrate with lies.

When people say perhaps its cause theyre lying. Either they dont believe the thing theyre saying, or they do believe it only they dont want to admit they do.