Best 432 quotes in «conviction quotes» category

One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.

One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.

One of my pet theories is that readers have built-in BS detectors that enable them to recognize insincerity in writers. David [Halberstam] was sincerity to the core. He believed in what he wrote, and that conviction conveyed itself to readers.

One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.

One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.

Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.

PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.

... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.

Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.

Political activists of all stripes are usually a wacky bunch, and never more so than in a system like Britain's, where power is effected via the quiescence of the electorate as much as its convictions.

Our belief in God is not blind faith. Belief is having a firm conviction something is true, not hoping it's true.

Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.

Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

Sexiness is about being an individual and having conviction about what that is.

Repentance, however difficult to be practiced, is, if it be explained without superstition, easily understood. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God.

Repetition of the same chant, the same incantations, the same affirmations leads to belief, and once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction.

She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themselves… They belonged to her her and were her own, and she entertained the conviction that she had a right to them and they they concerned no one but herself.

Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.

She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.

Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.

Somewhere in my head, a private conviction exists that 'Search is the Process' and 'Discovery the Art Form.

So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit the validity of our new-found convictions.

Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

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

Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust.

That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

Speak out tirelessly with conviction.

Spring's first conviction is a wealth beyond its whole experience.

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

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

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

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

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 challenge of Leadership maintaining personal conviction in a globalized world.

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

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

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

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.