Core Convictions Quotes

If I fail, if I succeed, at least I live as I believe.

If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.

If I've learned any one lesson from life, it's this: If you don't stand for something, you will stand for anything.

Unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

The convictions that leaders have formed before reaching high office are the intellectual capital they will consume as long as they continue in office.

We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one's total orientation to life. Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern. One's religious attitude is to be found at that point where he has a conviction that there are values in human existence worth living and dying for.

Take it from your own life, write what you believe in.

The things that I care about have never changed.

His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.

In making up my mind as to what Mr. Lincoln really believed, I do not take into consideration the evidence of unnamed persons or the contents of anonymous letters; I take the testimony of those who knew and loved him, of those to whom he opened his heart and to whom he spoke in the freedom of perfect confidence.

Even secular people can't really escape from the need to rest their ideas on some belief, some sort of commitment that is not scientific commitment.