Quotes about Conviction
Being humble does not mean being weak, reticent, or self-effacing. It means recognizing principle and putting it ahead of self. It means standing firmly for principle, even in the fact of opposition.
- Stephen Covey
Faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts.
- Barack Obama
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
- John Lennon
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
- William Golding
We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you?
- Randy Alcorn
The opposite of patience is not impatience, but unbelief.
- Jackie Pullinger
Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?
- Albert Einstein
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.
- Joseph Addison
If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.
- Ayn Rand
Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.
- John Adams