Best 432 quotes in «conviction quotes» category

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

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.

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

Constant repetition carries conviction.

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

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

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

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

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.

Courageous convictions will drag the dream into existence.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.

Every fool stands convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool. The faultier a person's judgement the firmer their convictions.

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

Faith is the conviction that God knows more than we do about this life and He will get us through it.

Faith creates the foundation for 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.

Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount.

Happiness and high come to you when you choose to live your life consistent with your highest values and your deepest convictions.

Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mother of great deeds.

[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest.

Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which belongs to well-thought argument, and the warmth that proceeds from earnest appeal.

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.

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

For many Americans, Osama bin Laden is the paradigmatic Muslim, an absurd conviction for anyone who has lived with Muslims.

Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.

Gorbachev's administration was amazingly politically naïve, inexperienced and irresponsible towards the country. It was not governance but a thoughtless renunciation of power. The admiration of the West in return only strengthened his conviction that his approach was right. But let us be clear that it was Mikhail Gorbachev, and not Boris Yeltsin, as is now widely being claimed, who first gave freedom of speech and movement to the citizens of Russia.

Have the conviction that God is your only real relative and friend.

Have the courage of your convictions once you have made a decision.

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are going to make painters by painting ourselves, and by showing the paintings of others. By working frankly from our convictions, we are going to make them work frankly from theirs.

However, it must always remain a dialogue, and never an imposition of the church's own convictions and methods. Propose, not impose. To serve, and not to dominate.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

I am able to make a contribution... Let me repeat my convictions, I can make a contribution to American painting.

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect. . . Geometry should be ranked, not with arithmetic, which is purely aprioristic, but with mechanics.

I am influenced more than ever before by the conviction that social equality is the only basis of human happiness.

I am not a consensus politician. Im a conviction politician.

I am not a Christian because God changed my life; I am a Christian because of my convictions about who Jesus Christ is.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

I am ready to defend my convictions even unto death. I have followed the Sacred Scriptures and the holy doctors.

I approach this with - with an open mind and I'll do it on the basis of a deep conviction with President-elect Donald Trump.

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