Conviction Quotes

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal

Healing and positive life change comes from having the courage and spiritual conviction to look squarely at life's impermanence.

I am influenced more than ever before by the conviction that social equality is the only basis of human happiness.

Too many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions.

I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them.

However, it must always remain a dialogue, and never an imposition of the church's own convictions and methods. Propose, not impose. To serve, and not to dominate.

The Cat was a creature of absolute convictions, and his faith in his deductions never varied.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

I still remember the five points of salesmanship: attention, interest, conviction, desire and close.

We can walk through the darkest night with the radiant conviction that all things work together for the good.

There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series.

Confidence is something you acquire in yourself by believing in self ability with courage and conviction.

Man's will, sustained by an indominable conviction, is much more powerful than material forces that seem insurmountable.

Just as you can practice three-word sentences or sentences that travel across time zones, so can you practice writing sentences that breathe unshakable conviction.

Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God.

Does not a misplaced optimism exist, common to all mankind, leading on to false conviction that social engagements, if dated sufficiently far ahead, will never really materialize?

If you don't have the ability to see when to stand up and the conviction to do it, you'll never be an effective leader.

If you know the differences between an oak and a poplar, a spruce and a pine, down to the needles... you are able to paint that tree with more conviction, even if done with a few broad strokes.

The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate.

In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.

I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.

Communicate your passion clearly, concisely and with genuine conviction.

Salesmanship consists of transferring a conviction by a seller to a buyer.

It is my conviction that there is perhaps no single factor more important in a spiritual home and in building spiritual strength in our children than the teaching and practice of prayer.

Truth is not a matter of argumentation and conviction; it is not the outcome of opinion.

It is my conviction that in time of war, when the cannon speaks with its powerful voice, the less we speak the better.

Courage results when one's convictions are bigger than one's fears.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.

It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.

I am certain about what I will never do - but not about what my art will render.

Don't let anyone tell you no. Do it with conviction, do it with passion, and you'll find a way

I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity

American federalism was the embodiment of political tolerance and decentralization - the expression of the liberal conviction that society can manage itself and needs no central plan.

My sad conviction is that people can only agree about what they're not really interested in.

I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

All that matter is honesty, integrity, and courage to face your conviction.

Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face. But I left with a smile. I knew that I was a convicted criminal, but I was proud of my crime.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.

Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.