Conviction Quotes
People will say anything, especially if they think it's what you want to hear. What we do is what matters. The proof of words is in actions.
Don't allow anyone to hold you back from expressing your feelings. Maybe you just can't stand a chance of losing some friends, but if you must be truly you, you must be you! Nothing else!
Convictions in our ideas is dangerous not only because it leaves us vulnerable to false positives, but also because it stops us from generating the requisite variety to reach our creative potential.
Ballot papers do not define leaders. Leadership is defined by conviction, vision, passion and inspiration.
When you show compassion instead of being judgemental. You will not undergo your own judgement, but you will receive your own love
Then his heart made up his mind.
Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden.
If you are convinced about your choices, go with full hope that you will get there by the grace of God!
Yet none of these things gave him confidence. All they gave him was egotism, which is less the conviction of one's worth than the desire for that conviction.
I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of the conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or not.
Conviction, then, is no part of a sinner’s salvation—but the clear practical knowledge of the fact that he cannot save himself, and is entirely dependent on the saving grace of God.
When you are convinced that what you offer is yours, whether it be mediocre or of standard quality, your originality will make people love you in a way you did not expect.
Her shift in thinking was clearly conflicted. It must have been difficult to disavow something for which she had a deep love and in which she had been immersed so much of her life.
If you plan to build walls around me, know this—I will walk through them.
Follow your dreams with determination and conviction until they become true.
A lot of people are capable, Neelkanth. What makes a capable person truly dangerous is his conviction.
More violence does not necessarily equate with greater religious conviction.
So many people are able to do something in life, but when they compare what they have done to their larger environment, they feel they have not done anything!
One of the strongest conviction of delayed gratification is to convince people to have faith in the truth.
Holy Spirit convicts us when we do something wrong, He guides us back to the right path
Keep testing your conviction from time to time, with your intellect as well as emotions to ensure you are on the right path!
The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt. (p. 21)
Your true conviction is tested not when everything goes your way but rather when things go wrong...
I believe in the gods. Or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us I believe they are completely absent-minded.
What is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause but what they say about their opponents.
It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have 'something worth fighting for' they do not feel like fighting.
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity never of the correctness of a belief.
The peak of tolerance is most readily achieved by those who are not burdened with convictions.
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind.
Convictions are the mainsprings of action the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.
Those who serve a cause are not those who love that cause. They are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it - except in the case of the very purest and they are rare.
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
A man can believe in a considerable deal of rubbish and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
Every life is a possession of faith and exercises an inevitable and silent propaganda.
Soon after a hard decision something inevitably occurs to cast doubt. Holding steady against that doubt usually proves the decision.
Along with a sense of humor, my songs have to be sincere, and they have to be sung from a position of inner conviction.