Conviction Quotes

When we lock things away," he said with conviction, "we're really imprisoning ourselves.

"It is my inmost conviction," Badshah Khan said, "that Islam is amal, yakeen, muhabat" - selfless service, faith, and love.

We led with our conviction rather than rational, because rational said it was impossible.

Challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction. I believe that ambition and initiative will ultimately triumph.

To me, the difference between a good marriage and a great marriage is conviction.

Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

Repetition of the same chant, the same incantations, the same affirmations leads to belief, and once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

The real test that I believe that God is love is that tragedies don't separate me from the conviction that God is love.

It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.

Beware lest we mistake our prejudices for our convictions.

What is courage? It is the ability to be strong in trust, in conviction, in obedience. To be courageous is to step out in faith - to trust and obey, no matter what.

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

Faith is not a blind, irrational conviction. In order to believe, we must know what we believe, and the grounds on which our faith rests.

The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience.

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

Marinate in your own being, grow in your wisdom, mature in understanding, be firm in your conviction, be strong in your Self.

But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe.

The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.

Good investing is a peculiar balance between the conviction to follow your ideas and the flexibility to recognize when you have made a mistake.

Real revival does not begin with joyous singing. It begins with conviction and repentance on the part of Christians.

Without conviction that you can make change happen, you will not act, even if you see the vision. Your feelings will hold you back.

The people who are opposing the policy of apartheid have not the courage of their convictions. They do not marry non-Europeans.

Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.

No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under.

We forget that the accumulation of knowledge and the holding of convictions must finally result in the application of that knowledge and those convictions to life itself.

No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction until the state is indifferent to every form of religious outlook from Atheism to Zoroastrianism.

The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?

The secret of success is conviction and persistence.

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.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

What children need is the conviction that satisfaction can and must be earned. ... Spoiled children do not learn the must.

Leave greatness to others. Become so small that no one can see you. This conviction results from growing devotion to the supreme reality.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.

The depth of your belief and the strength of your conviction determines the power of your personality.

While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom, there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others.

Change arises from conviction. Stop voting in fear. Start voting for hope.

For many Americans, Osama bin Laden is the paradigmatic Muslim, an absurd conviction for anyone who has lived with Muslims.

I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction.

My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her conviction, her discipline. She would rather see other people happy than herself.

I'm a man of convictions. If you press me about how I feel about an issue, you're going to see my convictions.

Faith is the conviction that God knows more than we do about this life and He will get us through it.

There is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole catalogue of human suffering as the first conviction that the heart of the being whom we most tenderly love is estranged from us.

The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.

I am not a consensus politician. Im a conviction politician.