Conviction Quotes

Faith is holding onto uncertainties with passionate conviction.

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.

Hope is not a feeling. It is not the belief that things will turn out well, but the conviction that what you are doing makes sense, no matter how things turn out.

Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction.

The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.

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.

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.

When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.

Somewhere in my head, a private conviction exists that 'Search is the Process' and 'Discovery the Art Form.

I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.

What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power?

Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.

Conviction is a good motive, but a bad judge.

If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.

We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

There are ten church-members by inheritance for one by conviction.

The reason we have this inner conviction that death is not the end - and that Heaven exists - is because we were created in the image of God.

The backbone of the preaching of Christ is a conviction of the truth of Christ.

The key to success is not purely who's the smartest, who's the best, but also who can say with conviction, "I deserve it." The entire concept is wrapped up in one phrase: "Why not me?

If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all up or go abstract or take up photography.

Art is the expression of the conviction that we can have a rational relationship with the world and each other. It isn't the faith or hope that we can, it is the demonstration that we can.

Conviction of sin draws me away from myself and toward GodSelf-condemnation, on the other hand, draws me down into myself and away from God.

It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.

The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot.

Utterance does not in principle mean a weakening of conviction--that would not be anything to be deplored--but a weakness of conviction.

Despite the recent conviction of many that we're headed back to inflation, I think deflation remains the more likely prospect. You've just got too much excess capacity in the world.

Given the irreversibility of the death penalty, the possibility of a wrongful conviction can never be overstated.

You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust.

Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.

Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.

Even when you err, it is a thousand times better to err out of conviction than to hide your true opinion to respect some authority.

....religion may be best be described as an emotion resting on a conviction of a harmony between ourselves and the universe at large.

Belief, in one of its accepted senses, may consist in a merely intellectual assent, while faith implies such confidence and conviction as will impel to action.

[T]he one indispensable ingredient of science fiction [is] a belief in a world being changed by man's intellect, a conviction that what was being written could really happen.

The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.

Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.

Van Gogh is the best example of how a person can be on the right track, propelled by gut feeling and some kind of strange obsessive stubborn conviction, that no one seems to understand.

Men are joined by conviction, sundered by opinion.

There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.

Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.

Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.

A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.

Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy.

I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.

It is a strange irony that the principles of science should seem to deny the necessary conviction of common sense.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!