Conviction Quotes

My conviction is that those fights need to be fought right now and can be won. And if in fact we have finite political capital, energy, resources, we need to win those fights.

Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.

Do you think the Bible is accurate? I mean, do you think it's real?" " I think Pastor Calvin is hot. In a fortysomething way. That pretty much sums up my religious conviction

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

Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.

I am a fairly go-with-the-flow guy. Don't get me wrong, I have convictions.

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.

Our conviction is that human life and limb are a very special possession given by God to man and that no one has the right to take that away, in any cause, however just...

I have served a sufficiently long sentence. I am not asking for a pardon of my conviction.

It is only as powerful as it is relevant in a given scenario. I think we need to be clear it is not a magic bullet in post-conviction cases.

I think, like Ronald Reagan, in another way, in a secular way, John Paul II was a great communicator, but he was also a man of deep conviction.

Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children.

It is not enough to have the courage of your convictions, you must also have the courage to have your convictions challenged.

Critics should stick to their convictions.

As entrepreneurs, we must constantly dream and have the conviction and obsession to transform our dreams into reality - to create a future that never existed before.

There needs to be conviction and action behind rules.

Speak out tirelessly with conviction.

What impressed me about Plato and Sartre was their conviction that we should live our lives in the light of big truths about reality and human existence.

Blasphemy and prayer are one. Both assert the existence of a superior power. The first, however, with conviction.

For some time now she has had the conviction that life is about to change if only because it must. . . .

Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread, they will be led where they need to go.

The most good you can do for yourself spiritually is to live your life with total love, conviction, and purpose.

It is my conviction that movie stars are not entitled to any rights of privacy.

There is a certain strong sense of inner conviction that strikes, with a pang as that of birth, through the very soul, and which is experienced but once or twice in a lifetime.

The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.

My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.

Like all born politicians, their eye was for the main chance rather than for the argument, and they found it easier to forswear a conviction than to forego a comfort.

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

Faith is not a weak form of belief or knowledge; it is not faith in this or that; faith is the conviction about the not yet proven, the knowledge of the real possibility, the awareness of pregnancy.

Who has no own conviction dissipates himself in the imitation of others.

(They) were found guilty of continuing to promote the merits of Laetrile in cancer therapy in violation of terms of probation they had originally secured following their 1973 conviction.

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

The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.

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.

What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son.

The command 'become hard! ', the deep conviction that all creators are hard, is the really distinctive sign of a Dionysian nature.

Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction?

He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him

If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.

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 am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.

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 my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear.

I quitted my Seat in the House of Delegates, from a Conviction that I was no longer able to do any essential Service.

The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall intolerable suffering.

There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.

So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure.

Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.

There is the old boys' club, but there are ­people who are "conviction lobbyists" coming from the heart.

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