Best 432 quotes in «conviction quotes» category

The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

The Cat was a creature of absolute convictions, and his faith in his deductions never varied.

The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.

The conviction that everyone in this house must be dead had gained such a hold on Magnus that it was a shock when the woman who had summoned him here opened the door.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

The Day We Let Our Convictions Define Our Life Rather Than Our Insecurities, Our True Journey Begins.

The greatest challenge of Leadership maintaining personal conviction in a globalized world.

The fanatic has the courage of his conviction and the intolerance of his courage. He is opposed to the death penalty for murder, but he would willingly have anyone electrocuted who disagreed with him on the subject.

The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something

The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?

The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience.

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

The [Israelis] believed - they were possessed of an absolute certainty and conviction - that 'terrorists' were in Chatila. How could I explain to them that the terrorists had left, that the terrorists had worn Israeli uniforms, that the terrorists had been sent into Chatila by Israeli officers, that the victims of the terrorists were not Israelis but Palestinians and Lebanese?

The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.

The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

The pressure of show business is on all the time and show business is a fickle business. Whatever is popular now - that's all that counts. I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.

There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.

The people who are opposing the policy of apartheid have not the courage of their convictions. They do not marry non-Europeans.

There are real solutions right now for us if we stand up with the courage of our convictions.

The reason we have this inner conviction that death is not the end - and that Heaven exists - is because we were created in the image of God.

There's a cultural conviction that any 'artist' must have personal suffering to back up their work, otherwise there's something undeserved and therefore inauthentic about it, perhaps even some sort of cheating.

There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series.

There's one thing we need above everything else; it's something we don't talk about these days. We need a mighty avalanche of conviction of sin.

There should be just no end to what we can do when we operate with the courage of our convictions and we get out there in the street, in the voting booth, we assert our power and we take our democracy back.

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

The Turkish judiciary has a very strong nationalist tradition, which is gradually changing, but only gradually. And since there was a nationalist outcry against Orhan Pamuk's remarks about Turkey's need to confront its past, I'm not surprised that one public prosecutor in an Istanbul borough should have decided to act. I don't expect the proceedings to lead to a conviction. But in any case one mustn't generalize and say that's the way Turkey behaves; it's the way one nationalist public prosecutor behaves.

The secret of success is conviction and persistence.

The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without.

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.

Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers.

The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.

We can walk through the darkest night with the radiant conviction that all things work together for the good.

To me, the difference between a good marriage and a great marriage is conviction.

Too many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions.

Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.

We cannot preserve philanthropic and charitable values if we detach them completely from our fundamental personal beliefs and convictions.

We cannot resist the conviction that this world is for us only the porch of another and more magnificent temple of the Creator's majesty.

To discover depravity in those whom we have loved, is one of the most exquisite tortures to a virtuous mind, and the conviction is often rejected before it is finally admitted.

Tony Rezko and Bill Ayers should lead the Democratic Party. They are the only Democrats with any convictions.

To realize the relative validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilized man from a barbarian.

To seek truth and to utter what one believes to be true can never be a crime. No one must be forced to accept a conviction. Conviction is free.

Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.

We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.