Best 432 quotes in «conviction quotes» category

I don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction.

I don't consider myself a Hollywood liberal, but I have my convictions and my beliefs.

If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others.

I expect that you must receive top marks at school, young lady." Madeleine smiled as she stirred her tea. "There are always rewards for those who state the obvious frequently and with conviction.

If condoms and potentially microbicides can prevent millions of deaths [from AIDS], they should be made more widely available. I know that there are those who, out of sincere religious conviction, oppose such measures. And with these folks, I must respectfully but unequivocally disagree.

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.

If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions.

I have a firm conviction that I am immortal until my work is done.

If you don't have the ability to see when to stand up and the conviction to do it, you'll never be an effective leader.

If you have political convictions... keep 'em to yourself

If you pivot, do it fully and with conviction. The worst thing is to try to do a bit of the old and the new-it's hard to kill your babies.

If your theological convictions are not producing a deeper love for others, then it's time to rethink some stuff.

If you're willing to give convicts time served and let them walk, why do you want to give them a criminal record? I mean, either they should be in jail, or be free. But it's all because of some internal bureaucratic stat about getting a felony conviction for the prosecutor. Everyone's got their own little game to play, but that prosecutorial part of it is not well known.

If you’re afraid to defend your convictions because you might get your ass kicked for it, you’re not really fit to advocate for them.

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

I have a conviction that it's only when you are put at full stretch that you can realise your full potential.

I have always held the conviction that American citizens should keep as much of their hard-earned money as possible.

I have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues. Momentary success carries more power of conviction than reflections upon principles.

I have come to the conviction that once one embarks on a concept for a building, this concept has to be exaggerated and overstated and repeated in every part of its interior so that wherever you are, inside or outside, the building sings with the same message.

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

I have served a sufficiently long sentence. I am not asking for a pardon of my conviction.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense. ... Everyone who contributes to the 'too much' of literature is doing grave social injury.

I love opposition that has convictions.

I'm a man of convictions. If you press me about how I feel about an issue, you're going to see my convictions.

In our timidity and our shoddy opportunism we are always stirred when a man appears on the horizon willing to stake his all on a conviction.

I must honestly declare my conviction that, since the days of the Reformation, there never has been so much profession of religion without practice, so much talking about God without walking with Him, so much hearing God's words without doing them.

In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions.

In the matter of faith, we have the added weight of hope to that of reason in the convictions which we sustain relating to a future state.

In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.

I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

I take it that the judgment is an essential point in every conviction, let the punishment be fixed or not.

It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic martyr's death for their convictions.

I think it's the person's conviction that really carries a person.

It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.

"It is my inmost conviction," Badshah Khan said, "that Islam is amal, yakeen, muhabat" - selfless service, faith, and love.

It is my conviction that movie stars are not entitled to any rights of privacy.

It is my deepest conviction that the children should be seen and heard as our most treasured assets.

It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.

It is not faith per se that creates the problem; it is conviction, the notion that one cannot be wrong, that opposing views are necessarily invalid and may even be intolerable.

It is our firm conviction that mankind will live the happier when it has learned to live with music more worthily. Whoever works to promote this end, in one way or another, has not lived in vain.

It is those people who know that they are right because some outside or higher power conveys the conviction to them who do the great damage in the world.

It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.

I've always had this deep-down conviction that I'm not like everybody else, and there's an amazingly exciting new life waiting for me just around the corner.

Ive been told by readers that they love how my heroes fall in love fast, first, and with conviction.

I wanted to show young people that taking a stand can be done by simply standing firm in your convictions.