Best 432 quotes in «conviction quotes» category

You need energy and purpose to become the person you’re destined to be.

You need fire, conviction, to write. You can't write out of indifference.

Your true conviction is tested not when everything goes your way but rather when things go wrong...

A belief is something you will argue about. A conviction is something you will die for.

A conviction is in the nature of a verdict and judgment, and therefore it must be precise and certain.

Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words, tripped up, bewildered and so defeated-thrown aside-a man hesitates to write down his innermost convictions.

Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions; and thereby miss the wine of life, forgoing the very thing that makes living worthwhile.

Americanism is a question of spirit, of conviction and purpose, not creed or birthplaces. The test of our worth is the service we render.

And everyone who wills can hear the Voice. It is within every one. But like everything else it requires previous and definite preparation.

A mental picturing of that which we want, with the complete acceptance and the conviction that it is ours now, will bring it quickly.

And when we are tolerant, we must know whether it is because of convenience or conviction.

and he would probably not agree with my conviction that a sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. But who can say for sure? Humor is a very private thing.

And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.

An indictment is not a conviction.

A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions.

Any preacher who preaches beyond that which he has experienced is incapable of preaching with conviction.

Beware lest we mistake our prejudices for our convictions.

A person without conviction is a weak, jellyfish type of individual who mindlessly follows the crowd.

Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?

Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.

Be true to your own highest convictions.

Beware of making a fetish of consistency to your convictions instead of being devoted to God.

Assertion of truths known and felt, promulgation of truth from the high platform of truth itself, declaration of faith by the mouth of moral conviction--this is the New Testament method, and the true one.

As resolute as I feel about my convictions, if I'm wrong, I'm man enough to say I'm wrong, because I find it a rare occasion anyway.

But it is my total conviction that all the trappings of good leadership are generic and widely applicable whether you are standing in a khaki queue with your mess tins or on an automobile production line.

But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.

Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

But then books, as I'm sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action. Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already. You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated. A book, as it were, closes the book.

Change arises from conviction. Stop voting in fear. Start voting for hope.

Christianity is not consistency to conscience or to convictions; Christianity is being true to Jesus Christ.

Communicate your passion clearly, concisely and with genuine conviction.

Conviction is a force multiplier. If you want something, claim it in your gut. The universe itself responds to your inner certainty.

Confidence is something you acquire in yourself by believing in self ability with courage and conviction.

Constant repetition carries conviction.

Conviction of sin draws me away from myself and toward GodSelf-condemnation, on the other hand, draws me down into myself and away from God.

Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.

Conviction is not repentance; conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance.

Courageous convictions will drag the dream into existence.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal

Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.

Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.

Dogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others.

Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.

Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread, they will be led where they need to go.

Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour.

Don't take what someone else has made sure of and pretend it's you yourself that have made sure of it till it's yours absolutely by conviction. It's stealing to take it and hypocrisy and you'll fall into a hole.

Even when you err, it is a thousand times better to err out of conviction than to hide your true opinion to respect some authority.

Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.

Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account.