Conviction Quotes
I never overcame my conviction that writing for commercial television was a kind of prostitution.
Active waiting means present fully to the moment, in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want to be present to it.
Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this.
He's the kind of liar who totally forgets what he told you the last time, but he believes every single lie with such conviction that sometimes he can convince you of it.
and he would probably not agree with my conviction that a sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. But who can say for sure? Humor is a very private thing.
The only time Republicans will shake fists and point fingers is over a war delayed, one that isn't led by the US, or a war waged without the necessary conviction (read collateral damage).
Faith is conviction without evidence, and sometimes even in the face of contrary evidence. In some quarters, this quality is perceived as a virtue.
When it comes to individual destiny, there is no power greater in the universe then the conviction of the human soul to make a choice.
Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.
To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.
The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the truth.
I hate what you represent." ... "Power without conviction." Isana replied, her tone lifeless, matter of fact. "Ambition without conscience. Decent folk suffer at the hands of those like you.
Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father.
But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.
...there ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it may be considered.
When God brings deep conviction and I agree with Him about my condition, God restores my confidence in Him.
There’s no basis or anything. I just have this conviction that appeared inside of me which I have to follow.
I'd say that individuals are respected who stick to their convictions instead of doing whatever happens to be in fashion.
Frenchwomen could not dress like Englishwomen without conviction of sin.
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.
Certainly within any decadent period, you would probably find the purest expressions of conviction, and I do not see that in many of the people I know.
Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction.
What we start with is a conviction to fulfill our being. Horses, trees fulfill themselves. Why shouldn't people.
The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.
It is my conviction that nothing enduring can be built on violence. The only safe way to overcome an enemy is to make of that enemy a friend.
My religion teaches me that I should, by my personal conduct, instill into the minds of those who might hold different views the conviction that cow killing is a sin.
Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.
To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.
... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.
When we approach love and creativity with the level of conviction that the powers-that-be in the world today are approaching hatred and destruction, then and only then will we have a chance.
The strength of Donald Trump as a candidate - and I'm not in any way defending moral convictions or anything of the sort - was that he says what he means, you know where he stands.
The cornerstone of religion, a clear vision can inspire great action and firm conviction.
Nature protects us in our uttermost losses by a density through which conviction is slow to penetrate.
As an actor I can sort of smell a duff note, that isn't full of that much conviction. My worst thing with directors is when I know more than them about the character.
A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human, will never command belief in the realm of the superhuman.
It is my conviction that physical courage at crucial moments comes from the sum of intellectual courage and integrity that you muster at that moment.
I'm a firm believer that when children have a strong conviction about something, it's often because there's some powerful experience from a past life. Something that they didn't get to fulfill.
Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young.
Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to play together to make things work.
