Internal Conviction Quotes

I knew I was going to be successful from day one. From day one. That's why it throws me whenever someone says it was such a fluke that I was successful.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

Well, obviously religion must come from inside.

If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don't usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves.

The ideal is not believing in, but believing from.

You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.

What's true in our minds is true, whether some people know it or not.

One can mistrust one's own senses, but not one's own belief.

He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.

Each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.

A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.

That others grasp what I have in mind seems unessential, at least as long as they have something else in theirs.