Quotes About Conviction

Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.

Long copy sells more than short copy, particularly when you are asking the reader to spend a lot of money.

Quando dite qualcosa assicuratevi di averlo detto.

C.S. Lewis and Billy Graham once did.

It matters not what you fight but what you fight for.

As for me, I prefer truth to goodthink. I feel surer on my ground.

If you don't have true, deep, enduring conviction about the importance of the change you're pursuing, you will be buffeted, worn down, ground down, and diverted at those critical points where leadership is the only force that keeps the change moving. The biggest mistakes that I see come during those points. At root, the mistakes arise from the dissipation of conviction—leadership and management conviction.

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Let a man go to the bottom of what he is and believe in that.

Religionists have a perceived need, planted there as a part of the brainwashing they've received. They need no religion, but they think they do, because religion has convinced them of it.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. —SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Even if you totally believe in something, there's always an element of doubt.

real love is possible if you have faith and believe.

It seems the whole works of humankind are backwards. Most are trying to convince, instruct, and purify everyone else - without first purifying themselves. To enlighten others we have to enlighten ourselves.

You have just convinced me the faith you have found is what I need. What I have longed for. There is nothing further you could have said that would have convinced me. But this? This need to forgive. That is real, Julia. Genuine. I know it cannot come from within – except by the help of your God. Would you tell me how I might receive this ability to forgive from the God you have claimed as your own?

Remember these words when I am dead. First be sure you're right, then go ahead.

Be always sure you are right, then go ahead.

Be sure you're right-then go ahead.

atheists are the most faithful people I ever met

There's a fine line between standing behind a principle and hiding behind one.

That was the trouble with explaining with words. If you explained with gunpowder, people listened.

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides," Henri Frédéric Amiel

Riley had no doubt that an "immediate and merciful act of the Almighty" had saved them from the surf at Bojador. According to him, all of his men believed this too. Later, when a friend advised him to play down this conviction, because skeptics would use it to discredit the rest of his account of the voyage, Riley refused.