Unyielding Belief Quotes

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly

There is no man more dangerous than one who does not doubt his own rightness.

Hero­ism breaks its heart, and ide­al­ism its back, on the intran­si­gence of the cred­u­lous and the mediocre, manip­u­lated by the cyn­i­cal and the corrupt.

The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his desperate need for something to hold onto.

I have a faith that's unbendable as far as my Lord and Savior is concerned.

Fanaticism in many lands has surfaced as the greatest threat to the world. Indifference to its consequences would be a serious mistake.

But what if...what if you sincerely believed something was true, but you were dead wrong? What if you were so stubbornly sure that you were right, that you wouldn’t even consider the truth? Would the truth be silenced, or would it try to break through?

Ninety percent of the time, you're going to hear no. It took me seven years to make 'Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored.' Nobody wanted to see the movie made. I got the movie made.

Passion is what convinced armies that had no chance to win - it's believing that something can happen. Reality is what you make it to be. And when you're the only one who can see the way the future is going to be, you can be the tool that bends, rips, shapes and paints the future the way you want it to be. That's true passion!

Hope and optimism are different. Optimism tends to be based on the notion that there's enough evidence out there to believe things are gonna be better, much more rational, deeply secular, whereas hope looks at the evidence and says, "It doesn't look good at all. Doesn't look good at all. Gonna go beyond the evidence to create new possibilities based on visions that become contagious to allow people to engage in heroic actions always against the odds, no guarantee whatsoever." That's hope. I'm a prisoner of hope, though. Gonna die a prisoner of hope.

Hope's interesting, isn't it? I can't turn hope off, it's hopeless.

He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.

Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?

Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms.

Some people never seem to learn from experience. No matter how often they had seen the lion devour the lamb, they continued to cling to the hope that the nature of the beast might change. If only the lion could get to know the lamb better, they argued, or talk matters over.

Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.

And only weaklings...who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose.

... it has always been the depth of my belief, my faith, or my love that was the mainspring of my behavior. When once I believed in doing a thing, nothing could prevent my doing it.

I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction.

I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers.

There's no point in arguing with me- in my mind, I'm always right.

Verily, there is nothing, right or wrong, which belief, plus burning desire, cannot make real.

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.