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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Miracles arise from conviction. Be convicted about these things: Miracles can happen. Miracles do happen. Love makes them happen.

Nature protects us in our uttermost losses by a density through which conviction is slow to penetrate.

My dad always, he helped me by not helping me. He always said, being a producer, it was all about conviction.

My sad conviction is that people can only agree about what they're not really interested in.

Neither the intensity of your feelings nor the certainty of your convictions is any assurance that you are right.

My conviction is that the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel.

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

My political views have definitely changed over the years. Maybe a better way of saying it is that I have grown into my convictions; the values and ideas of radical feminism that I started to articulate in my late teens feel more internalized or "second nature.

No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.

No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites.

No Legislature can really destroy a religious conviction, except by exterminating its holders. It is historically too late to do that, and we shall live to see the drowned Egyptians on the seashore even yet.

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.

No one nowadays talks about the absolute, not even people with firm and deep religious convictions. The whole Hegelian project has no resonance for us, as it once had for the Germans in the 1820s and the British and Americans around the 1880s.

Now, no one expects us to agree on everything, whether in Juneau or in Washington. But we are expected to govern with integrity and goodwill and clear convictions and a servant's heart.

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.

Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.

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 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.

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

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.

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.