Best 432 quotes in «conviction quotes» category

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

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

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 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 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 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.

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.

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

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

I love opposition that has convictions.

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 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.

I rejected the God that was portrayed as masculine and judgmental and cruel at times. The concept of us bring not worthy to receive him is something I used to say every Sunday in church, and eventually I just couldn't say it with any conviction.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity

I will yield to popular demands only insofar as they do not betray my own convictions.

Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time!

I write from a thorough conviction that it is the duty of me, and with the belief that, after every drawback and shortcoming, I do my best, all things considered--that is for me, and, so being, the not being listened to by one human creature would, I hope, in nowise affect me.

Joy begins with our convictions about spiritual truths we're willing to bet our lives on, and truths that are lodged so deeply within us that they produce a settled assurance about God.

I would replace the quality of sincerity with honesty, since one can hold a conviction sincerely without examining it, while honesty would require that one subject one's convictions to frequent scrutiny.

Love is an indescribable sensation - perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude.

Knowing exactly what you want to do, with unwavering conviction, is the spark that generates everything.

Laila remembered Mammy telling Babi once that she had married a man who had no convictions. Mammy didn't understand. She didn't understand that if she looked into a mirror, she would find the one unfailing conviction of his life looking right back at her.

Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles

Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything.

Listen to the advice of others, but follow only what you understand and can unite in your own feeling. Be firm, be meek, but follow your own convictions. It is better to be nothing than an echo of other painters.

Man's will, sustained by an indominable conviction, is much more powerful than material forces that seem insurmountable.