Conviction

“Unless you believe, you will not understand.”

—Augustine of Hippo

“As I get older I seem to believe less and less, and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.”

—David Jenkins

“Credulity is the man’s weakness, but the child’s strength.”

—Charles Lamb

“Clouds come floating into my life—no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”

—Rabindranath Tagore

“I meant what I said, and I said what I meant.”

—Dr. Seuss

“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”

—William Butler Yeats

“Have ultimate belief in yourself. Why is someone going to believe in you if you can’t believe in yourself?”

—Mindy Grossman

“The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one.”

—Rollo May

“Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.”

—Thomas Carlyle

“If it’s your passion and it’s from the heart, you just keep playing, playing and playing, and eventually somebody’s gonna notice.”

—Eddie Van Halen

“The highest court is in the end one’s own conscience and conviction.”

—Max Planck

“‘My conviction,’ says the mystic, ‘gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.’ ”

—E.M. Forster

“He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: He thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.”

—Friedrich Nietzsche

“The fact is that my appetite for risk was far greater than that of other people, and my courage in my own conviction was unshakable.”

—Sheldon Adelson

“Half of getting there is having the confidence to show up— and keep showing up.”

—Sophia Amoruso

“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.”

—Hebrews 11:1