Conviction Quotes

Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills.

I am left with the conviction that an avalanche would be easier to dissuade than that man.

Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.

In a way, being an opera singer is like being a very romantic sixteen-year-old who falls in love with great passion and conviction every month.

The spirit and tone of your home will have great influence on your children. If it is what it ought to be, it will fasten conviction on their minds, however wicked they may become.

It is my conviction that basic Reality is not all that perplexing. What seems difficult to assimilate are the manifold details of Reality, not its fundamental elements.

He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

I cannot say that our country could have no secret police without becoming totalitarian, but I can say with great conviction that it cannot become totalitarian without a centralized national police.

In politics, there's a fine line between too much conviction and too little.

I don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction.

If you pivot, do it fully and with conviction. The worst thing is to try to do a bit of the old and the new-it's hard to kill your babies.

You need conviction in your own beliefs, and the willingness to ignore others naysaying.

Philosophers there are who try to make themselves believe that this life is happy; but they believe it only while they are saying it, and never yet produced conviction in a single mind.

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.

Facts might be false if they challenge the conviction of a mind already made up.

I expect that you must receive top marks at school, young lady." Madeleine smiled as she stirred her tea. "There are always rewards for those who state the obvious frequently and with conviction.

A conviction is in the nature of a verdict and judgment, and therefore it must be precise and certain.

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

Faith creates the foundation for conviction.

Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak human, not the other way around.

There is a strength of conviction that can only come from being 100% wrong.

The only true hope for civilization-the conviction of the individual that his inner life can affect outward events and that, whether or not he does so he is responsible for them.

Whichever way I turn, whatever phase of social life presents itself, the same conviction comes: Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.

Sincerity of conviction and purity of motive will surely gain the day; and even a small minority, armed with these, is surely destined to prevail against all odds.

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

A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how to chew tobacco and how to tell a story.

The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.

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

I have always held the conviction that American citizens should keep as much of their hard-earned money as possible.

Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother's voice took away all the grief out of the words and left me with a conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet.

I don't think my religious convictions should be held against me.

I do not seek unpopularity as a badge of honour, but sometimes it is the price of leadership and the cost of conviction.

Our conviction that we are free to choose what we make of a photograph hides the complicity to which we are recruited in the very act of looking.

With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least ten per cent of your net worth in that stock

Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing I had to do in life.

Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.

By practice and conviction formed, With ancient stubbornness ingrained, Although her body clung and swarmed, My own identity remained.

My aesthetic is probably closer to a 15-year-old's than my dad's, but I get his conviction.

I would like to be remembered as someone who gave it all and went for it all, As a woman of strong conviction, character, dignity, and talent who always put God first.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Power is defined as an ability to do qualitative work with a quantitative passion, backed by a compelling conviction, directed by a propelling purpose, fulfilling a divine destiny. That is power!

God often gives us an inner conviction or prompting to confirm which way He wants us to go. This prompting comes from the Holy Spirit.

Anyone who has genuinely seen God is deeply convicted of his or her own sin.

It is the Holy Spirit who brings about conviction [of sin] . . .repentance cannot take place unless first there is a movement of the Holy Spirit in the heart and mind.

When comfort and ease and pleasure are put ahead of duty and conviction, progress is always set back.

We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

Genuine blasphemy genuine in spirit and not purely verbal is the product of partial belief and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.

Belief is better than anything else and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.

Every man who attacks my belief diminishes in some degree my confidence in it and therefore makes me uneasy and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.