Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
A zealot is a person who, having forgotten his original purpose, redoubles his efforts.
The origin of the quotation is with Philosopher George Santayana--{634038}
Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.
The greatest man is he who chooses the Right with invincible resolution, who resists the sorest temptations from within and without, who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully, who is calmest in storms and most fearless under menace and frowns, whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering. I believe this greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never heard.
It doesn't matter who other people are saying the favourite is; I'm still going in to win the gold medal.
God has been good to me. My faith has been good to me in the moments of deepest suffering, doubt and fear.
When have you ever seen someone who had no doubts who was also correct about anything?
The fanatical Communist refuses to believe any unfavorable report or evidence about Russia, nor will he be disillusioned by seeing with his own eyes the cruel misery inside the Soviet promised land. It is the true believer's ability to "shut his eyes and stop his ears" to facts that do not deserve to be either seen or heard which is the source of his unequaled fortitude and constancy. He cannot be frightened by danger, nor disheartened by obstacles, nor baffled by contradictions because he denies their existence.
Men will die for an opinion as soon as for anything else.
Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason.
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.
Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of our culture unendurable. Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief one already has.
The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and makes us incapable of accepting the proofs against it.
Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
As long as there are chances, we have to fight to the end. That's Madrid's philosophy.
As long as you are dreaming, there is always a way out
Who knows a man's name, holds that man's life in his keeping. Thus to Ged, who had lost faith in himself, Vetch had given him that gift that only a friend can give, the proof of unshaken, unshakeable trust.
To be an overachiever you have to be an over believer.
I'm going where my heart will take me I've got faith to believe I can do anything I've got strength of the soul And no one's gonna bend or break me I can reach any star I've got faith I've got faith Faith of the heart
I cannot lose the one thing that keeps me alive : hope -
To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
Through these adversities, Israel has endured with continued strength, conviction, and faith.
“Nothing's impossible,” Poppet responds. She smiles at him and jumps, her red hair trailing out behind her as she falls.
Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.
Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.