Conviction Quotes
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.
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion
He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.
We live our thoughts and manifest them in our attitudes toward ourselves and others. We cannot live beyond our thoughts and convictions.
The knowledge and spiritual conviction we receive from the Holy Ghost are the result of revelation.
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction.
I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.
Three things are necessary to make every man great,every nation great1.Conviction of the powers of goodness.2.Absence of jealousy and suspicion.3.Helping all who are trying to be and do good.
I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream.
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions; and thereby miss the wine of life, forgoing the very thing that makes living worthwhile.
By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.
If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.
We see God and the devil making fools of each other, and we nurture in ourselves the absolutely unshakable conviction that both of them are drunk.
I am Bourbon as a matter of honour, royalist according to reason and conviction, and republican by taste and character.
Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon Mother Earth, with certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you...
She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.
As we celebrate President Reagan's remarkable career and historic legacy, we also celebrate a man of strong character, deep conviction, unforgettable charm, and wonderful wit.
I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad.
There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it.
Miracles arise from conviction. Be convicted about these things: Miracles can happen. Miracles do happen. Love makes them happen.
I have a deep conviction that our lives are eternal, that it is waking and sleeping, that we are born together with the people we love lifetime after lifetime.
My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.
My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.
And everyone who wills can hear the Voice. It is within every one. But like everything else it requires previous and definite preparation.
My comprehension of God comes from a deeply felt conviction of a superior intelligence that reveals itself in the knowable world.
To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.
I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do-a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.
If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.
This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.
What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart.
Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and when the unification of Jews and Christians into the people of God will take place.
Joy begins with our convictions about spiritual truths we're willing to bet our lives on, and truths that are lodged so deeply within us that they produce a settled assurance about God.
Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time!
Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.
On eluding conviction after mistrial: Why me? I am blessed. I can't complain. I am walking out the door. I am going to have a healthy and happy Christmas.