Best 432 quotes in «conviction quotes» category

I will yield to popular demands only insofar as they do not betray my own convictions.

I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity

I write from a thorough conviction that it is the duty of me, and with the belief that, after every drawback and shortcoming, I do my best, all things considered--that is for me, and, so being, the not being listened to by one human creature would, I hope, in nowise affect me.

Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time!

Knowing exactly what you want to do, with unwavering conviction, is the spark that generates everything.

I would replace the quality of sincerity with honesty, since one can hold a conviction sincerely without examining it, while honesty would require that one subject one's convictions to frequent scrutiny.

Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles

Joy begins with our convictions about spiritual truths we're willing to bet our lives on, and truths that are lodged so deeply within us that they produce a settled assurance about God.

Laila remembered Mammy telling Babi once that she had married a man who had no convictions. Mammy didn't understand. She didn't understand that if she looked into a mirror, she would find the one unfailing conviction of his life looking right back at her.

Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything.

Love is an indescribable sensation - perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude.

Man's will, sustained by an indominable conviction, is much more powerful than material forces that seem insurmountable.

Miracles arise from conviction. Be convicted about these things: Miracles can happen. Miracles do happen. Love makes them happen.

My conviction is that the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel.

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

My dad always, he helped me by not helping me. He always said, being a producer, it was all about conviction.

My political views have definitely changed over the years. Maybe a better way of saying it is that I have grown into my convictions; the values and ideas of radical feminism that I started to articulate in my late teens feel more internalized or "second nature.

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

Listen to the advice of others, but follow only what you understand and can unite in your own feeling. Be firm, be meek, but follow your own convictions. It is better to be nothing than an echo of other painters.

My sad conviction is that people can only agree about what they're not really interested in.

Nature protects us in our uttermost losses by a density through which conviction is slow to penetrate.

No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites.

No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.

No Legislature can really destroy a religious conviction, except by exterminating its holders. It is historically too late to do that, and we shall live to see the drowned Egyptians on the seashore even yet.

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Neither the intensity of your feelings nor the certainty of your convictions is any assurance that you are right.

No one nowadays talks about the absolute, not even people with firm and deep religious convictions. The whole Hegelian project has no resonance for us, as it once had for the Germans in the 1820s and the British and Americans around the 1880s.

Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.

One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.

One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.

One of my pet theories is that readers have built-in BS detectors that enable them to recognize insincerity in writers. David [Halberstam] was sincerity to the core. He believed in what he wrote, and that conviction conveyed itself to readers.

Now, no one expects us to agree on everything, whether in Juneau or in Washington. But we are expected to govern with integrity and goodwill and clear convictions and a servant's heart.

Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.

Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.

One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.

Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.

Our belief in God is not blind faith. Belief is having a firm conviction something is true, not hoping it's true.

One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.

Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.

Political activists of all stripes are usually a wacky bunch, and never more so than in a system like Britain's, where power is effected via the quiescence of the electorate as much as its convictions.

PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

Repentance, however difficult to be practiced, is, if it be explained without superstition, easily understood. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God.

Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father.

Repetition of the same chant, the same incantations, the same affirmations leads to belief, and once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themselves… They belonged to her her and were her own, and she entertained the conviction that she had a right to them and they they concerned no one but herself.

She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.

Sexiness is about being an individual and having conviction about what that is.

... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.