Quotes About Conviction

Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.

History is what the evidence compels us to believe.

The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.

You have to be confident, if you're not confident you might as well go home.

We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.

I don't know that you're ever going to persuade New Zealanders that they're not going to own their own homes and I'm not going to try.

Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.

For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.

I don't ever want to come home saying, 'I should have spoken my mind. I shouldn't have let someone say something that I didn't feel was right.'

The spirit and tone of your home will have great influence on your children. If it is what it ought to be, it will fasten conviction on their minds, however wicked they may become.

Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.

Intellectual honesty consists in stating the precise conditions under which one will give up one's belief.

No truth could ever fear me.

You have to believe what you're saying if you're going to convince me. I just can't break that rule, even if I want to.

We do not compromise our own faith by admitting the honesty of another's doubt.

What is it men cannot be made to believe!

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

To the wind with what the world thinks about us. We are not to seek the approval of earth, but the honor of heaven.

I don't bang for the color or the land. I bang for the principles and for the honor. I'm bangin' for the Westside- this is in my heart, this is how I feel.

Whither am I going? To the New World. What to do? To gain honor? No, if I know my own heart. To get money? No: I am going to live to God, and to bring others so to do.

Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

To be fired for my faith would be a greater honor than to be fired because we didn't win enough games.

Faith changes hope into reality.

Be prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you.