Best 432 quotes in «conviction quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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

[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.

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

He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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 am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction.

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.

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

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 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.

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

I don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing 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 we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others.

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

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’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 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.

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

I have been gradually coming under the conviction, disturbing for a professional theorist, that there is no such thing as economics - there is only social science applied to economic problems.

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 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 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 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.

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.

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 offence.

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.