Quotes About Convictions

If there are any persons who contest a received opinion ... let us thank them for it, open our minds to listen to them, and rejoice that there is some one to do for us what we otherwise ought, if we have any regard for either the certainty or the vitality of our convictions, to do with much greater labor for ourselves. —John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

Being a Jehovah's Witness, I don't celebrate birthdays or holidays. I don't vote.

Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it.

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

It's not hard to make decisions once you know what your values are.

A man who stands for nothing will fall for everything.

Unlike Laura, I have never had the courage of my convictions.

Who cares, who cares. The perennial adolescent riposte. I cared, of course. I cared what people thought. I always did care. Unlike Laura, I have never had the courage of my convictions.

I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God.

When we are stuck in our convictions and personas, we enter into the disease of having good ideas and being right.

Some characters in fiction and our families exist as levers, to turn everything upside down and thereby knock out of the park some of our old presumptions, pretensions, convictions, and illusions of safety. These people, both in fiction and at the holiday table, tend to be annoying and on the margins.

We think that if our values aren't the correct ones, we would have other ones, which would then be the correct ones.

I'm not talking about dislike. If you stand for anything at all, there will be people who dislike you, she said impatiently. I chose the word hate because I meant it.

it always annoyed him when people implied you had to have a religion in order to hold to any standards of behavior.

Life is a test. It is only a test--meaning that's all it is. Nothing more, but nothing less. It is a test of our convictions and priorities, our faith and faithfulness, our patience and resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires. It is a test to determine if we want to be part of the kingdom of God more than we want anything else.

In real life, I'm afraid of heights - and people who get moral convictions... Adolf Hitler in London.

You can choose to live your lives as demonstrations of your highest and grandest beliefs, rather than as denials of them.

I'm curious how people build up the codes that they live their life by, and how they come to think that that's the best way for them to function.

He was a convinced but hardworked rationalist, always hard at it re-convincing himself of his convictions.

You don't know you're wrong." "And I don't know I'm right either. That's what the matter is. Neither of us knows . I'd only be gambling on my own convictions, and — and it isn't even my own money I'd be playing games with, if you want to put it that way.

Our worldview dictates what we think and believe is true. We hold our beliefs at two levels. One is our operating beliefs. They are the beliefs that we act on. These beliefs affect and influence our values and overall behavior. Our theoretical beliefs are the beliefs that we hold at a theoretical level. They may or may not affect our lives. A church's doctrinal statement or creed would be one example of a theoretical belief.

A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem. The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer--because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement.

Governor Pawlenty has the same conservative convictions and executive experience I admire in my dad.