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Quotes About Conviction

You'd better do what you feel good about doing. If we [try] to figure out what it is the audience wants and then try to deliver it to them, we're lost souls on the ghost ship forever.
~ Dan Rather
I might not be a good socialist, any more than I'm a good Christian, but I am one.
~ Ken Follett
As long as I stay true to what I believe is a good movie and what is my vision, that's all I can do.
~ Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr.
If you don't feel good about something, you don't shake it off easily.
~ Noah Baumbach
It turns out that good actors can make anything believable.
~ Paul Haggis
You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter
~ Tacitus
You know flexibility is a good thing but it shouldn't - you shouldn't be flexible on core principles.
~ Ted Cruz
Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
~ Winston Churchill
No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction until the state is indifferent to every form of religious outlook from Atheism to Zoroastrianism.
~ Harold Laski
Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
~ Wendell Phillips
Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.
~ Hugo Chavez
As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.
~ Dwight Morrow
My father took one of the toughest jobs in the government because he cared about his nation more than himself. His courage and conviction have always driven me to want to make a difference.
~ Pardis Sabeti
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
~ Steve Jobs
If you're willing to stand for what you believe in ... you won't need advice from me, because you will be able to handle whatever comes.
~ Whoopi Goldberg
I have great confidence in you to do what you think best. State your opinion and always act with courage.
~ Catherine McAuley
The good lawyer is the great salesman.
~ Janet Reno
The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.
~ William Lloyd Garrison
There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
~ Orison Swett Marden
I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
~ Oriana Fallaci
Whenever I find myself arguing for something with great passion, I can be certain I'm not convinced.
~ Hugh Prather
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.
~ W. Averell Harriman
I think it's really great when you stand up for something that you really believe, even if you get heat for it.
~ Christina Aguilera