Quotes About Convictions

Looking back, my abstinence was less a function of convictions and more because I was too much of a dork to be invited to parties. One doesn't stumble into many dens of iniquity on the way to a speech meet. Let's be real here. I'd have snorted rails off a hooker's ass if a preppy guy named Kip or Trip or Chip handed me the straw.

Good people with strong convictions could overturn any injustice if they simply refused to quit.

And she's got blue hair, and old-lady clothes. It's fine. She's one hundred percent herself. And she wouldn't be that strong, she wouldn't have the courage of her convictions, if she didn't have a mom like you.

Generally I wouldn't accept work on projects where I didn't agree with the sensibilities behind the main character.

When we first started, I didn't know there was Christian rock or Christian music. I just thought we were a rock band that stuck to our convictions... Like every other hardcore band out there sang or screamed what they thought, we did the same thing.

Character, personality, and behavior patterns are shaped by what we believe.

She had a great many opinions, but taken together they did not add up to a point of view.

Convictions in our ideas is dangerous not only because it leaves us vulnerable to false positives, but also because it stops us from generating the requisite variety to reach our creative potential.

I have remained true to my deepest convictions. I mean to the courage of those who are born to be defeated, the weaknesses of the strong, and the tragedy of misunderstandings and missed opportunities, which I have done my best to treat as comedy – for otherwise how can we manage to bear it?

the man who succeeds is the man who is able to reduce problems to their simplest terms and who has the courage of his convictions - despite the objections of intellectuals. The courage to speak, perhaps, even when he believes that what he is suggesting sounds like madness.

the man who succeeds is the man who is able to reduce problems to their simplest terms and who has the courage of his convictions

We are not helpless, and our world is not hopeless. Even as the world collapses, the Lord is building His church. We can say something, do something, pray something, preach something, and live by the convictions of Christ.

I have learned something about quality research, and also that the emotional prices involved in making "expedient" and "pragmatic" concessions often far exceed the effort needed to stand behind my own convictions.

Causes can be tricky masters," Harrington sighed. "It's really difficult to avoid checking your scruples at the door when you buy into one of them.

tout compte fait, je crois que mon tort était de ne pas avoir eu le courage de mes convictions. Je pouvais me trouver toutes les excuses du monde, aucune d'elles ne me donnerait raison. En réalité maintenant que j'avais perdu la face , je me cherchais un masque. Pareil à un défiguré, je me cachais derrière mes pansements qui me servaient aussi de moucharabiehs. Je regardais en cachette la vérité des autres, en abusais pour distancer la mienne

The chevalier had long since fathomed the nature of Athanase, and recognized in it that unyielding element of republican convictions to which in his youth a young man is willing to sacrifice everything, carried away by the word "liberty," so ill-defined and so little understood, but which to persons disdained by fate is a banner of revolt; and to such, revolt is vengeance.

People with passionate convictions tend to see the world through the lens of their passion - whether psychological, spiritual, or economic - and interpret everything they hear according to whether or not it harmonises with their own one-note samba

Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.

La mejor literatura es la que está hecha de preguntas más que de respuestas, de intuiciones más que de certezas, de dudas más que de convicciones.

He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young was like being insane or drunk, like the convictions he held were hallucinations caused by a mental illness that could only be cured by waiting five years.

our beliefs invariably drive our decision making.

Clearly determine your values, because when your values are clear, your decisions are easier.

rasgos físicos, sino un hondo idealismo y su admiración por Napoleón. Apreciaba su valor y heroísmo, y que siendo un mutilado de guerra se mantuviera firme en sus convicciones. Le

The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.