Quotes About Convictions

There has generally been a hard contest in the man's breast between loyalty to his party and strong personal convictions, the result of which has been an inability on the part of the struggler to give even a silent support to a measure which he has disapproved.

In other matters no sensible person will behave so irresponsibly or rest content with such feeble grounds for his opinions and for the line he takes. It is only in the highest and most sacred things that he allows himself to do so.

The key thing about life is to be true to a set of beliefs. And to be genuine.

There need to be some absolutes in life.

If you don't believe in virtues and principles, then you are not building your life on anything.

I wish for you a more difficult life, somewhere in the complicated center, where the courage of your convictions blends with humility and respect for others.

But this is the second work of the law when it hath by its convictions brought the sinner into a condition of a sense of guilt which he cannot avoid, -- nor will anything tender him relief, which way so ever he lose, for he is in a desert, -- it represents unto him the holiness and severity of God, with his indignation and wrath against sin which have a resemblance of a consuming fire. This fills his heart with dread and terror and makes him see his miserable, undone condition.

Long looking with admiration produces change. From your heroes you pick up mannerisms and phrases and tones of voice and facial expressions and habits and demeanors and convictions and beliefs. The more admirable the hero is and the more intense your admiration is, the more profound will be your transformation. In the case of Jesus, he is infinitely admirable, and our admiration rises to the most absolute worship. Therefore, when we behold him as we should, the change is profound.

If there are any persons who contest a received opinion, or who will do so if law or opinion will let them, 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.

If there are any persons who contest a received opinion, or who will do so if law or opinion will let them, 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 labour for ourselves.

It is what men think, that determines how they act

Se c'è qualcuno che contesta un'opinione comunemente accettata, o che lo farebbe se solo la legge o l'opinione pubblica glielo consentissero, non abbiamo che da ringraziarlo, spalancare la nostra mente per ascoltarlo, rallegrarci che ci sia qualcuno pronto a fare per noi quel che ci costerebbe ben più fatica fare da soli, sempre che almeno un po' ci importi della certezza o della vitalità delle nostre convinzioni.

S'il y a des gens pour contester une opinion reçue ou pour désirer le faire si la loi ou l'opinion publique le leur permet, il faut les en remercier, ouvrir nos esprits à leurs paroles et nous réjouir qu'il y en ait qui fassent pour nous ce que nous devrions prendre davantage la peine de faire, si tant est que la certitude ou la vitalité de nos convictions nous importe.

Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.

Cand nu mai crezi in iubire, poti inca sa iubesti, dupa cum poti lupta fara convingeri.Totusi, si intr-un caz si in altul,ceva s-a frant.Un edificiu caruia fisura ii tine loc de stil.

Imi plac temperamentele agresive si contradictorii,violente si sfasiate,si care prin excesele lor te stimuleaza,te descumpanesc.Abulia mea are nevoie de bici. O,dac-as avea un minimum de convingeri ca sa pot lupta pentru sau contra unui lucru!Eu insa mi-am vlaguit,mi-am una secatuit,mi-am golit convingerile,una cate una si toate deodata.

N'a de convictions que celui qui n'a rien approfondi

Ideas, doctrines - mere façades, decorative fantasies, accidents. If you have not resolved to kill yourself, there is no difference between you and the others, you belong to the faction of the living, all - no matter what their convictions - great believers. Do you deign to breathe? You are approaching sainthood, you deserve canonization.

To have opinions is inevitable, is natural; to have convictions is less so. Each time I meet someone who has convictions, I wonder what intellectual vice, what flaw has caused him to acquire such a thing. However legitimate this question, my habit of raising it spoils the pleasure of conversation for me, gives me a bad conscience, makes me hateful in my own eyes.

Those who look forward to a period of continuous and, so to speak, inevitable progress, are bound to assign some more solid reason for their convictions than a merely empirical survey of the surface lessons of history.

For, as Professor Turner has pointed out, "history originated as myth" and becomes a "social memory" to which men can appeal, "knowing it will provide justification for their present actions or convictions." If

Balfour did, in fact, hold certain basic convictions, but he could see arguments on both sides of a matter, which is the penalty of the thoughtful man.

Our convictions are the facts assured to us on the testimony of our own nature, our own senses, or our own reason.