Conviction Quotes

My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.

The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.

Convictions do not imply reasons.

People who hate often do so with great conviction. What we need are more people who love with conviction.

There's Eddie's conviction and his lyrics and his ideals, and he can just rock straight out. His vocals are incredible. And we all are really competent musicians.

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.

I am able to make a contribution... Let me repeat my convictions, I can make a contribution to American painting.

What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!

It is my conviction that highways and I-ways have similar importance these days. My effort is to connect all 600,000 villages with optical fiber networks in the next five years.

Courageous convictions will drag the dream into existence.

Despite popular conviction, a writer needn't wear black, be unshaven, sickly and parade around New York's East Village spewing aphorisms and scaring children.

The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.

Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

You don't have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.

Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.

I believe I and all the Chinese people have such a conviction that China will make continuous progress and the people's wishes for and needs for democracy and freedom are irresistible.

What other people may think of the rightness or wrongness is nothing in comparison to my own deep knowledge, my innate conviction that it was wrong.

Jurors should acquit, even against the judge's instruction . . . if exercising their judgment with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction the charge of the court is wrong.

To discover depravity in those whom we have loved, is one of the most exquisite tortures to a virtuous mind, and the conviction is often rejected before it is finally admitted.

Ignore fact and reason, live entirely in the world of your own fantastic and myth-producing passions; do this whole-heartedly and with conviction, and you will become one of the prophets of your age.

Convictions are a matter of choice, not force.

The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable.

In our timidity and our shoddy opportunism we are always stirred when a man appears on the horizon willing to stake his all on a conviction.

The feeling must come first. If you actually feel rich, if you have a deep inner conviction that you will always have all that you need, it will be so.

I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.

One difference between a conviction and a prejudice is that a conviction can be explained without getting angry.

We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.

After all, a creature without passionate conviction doesn't cling to extremes. He surveys the scenery and makes sure his outfit doesn't clash.

When I reviewed Hayek's book, The Pure Theory of Capital, it is my sincere conviction that this work contains some of the most penetrating thoughts on the subject that have ever been published.

The Greek word for idiot, literally translated, means one who does not participate in politics. That sums up my conviction on the subject.

It is my conviction that no normal man ever fell in love, within the ordinary meaning of the term, after the age of thirty.

It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.

Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.

It is lawful and hath been held so through all ages for any one who have the power to call to account a tyrant or wicked king, and after due conviction to depose and put him to death.

[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest.

...by bringing myself over the edge and back, I discovered a passion to live my days fully, a conviction that will sustain me like sweet water on the periodically barren plain of our short lives.

The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that.

Every strong conviction ends by taking possession of us; it overcomes and absorbs us, and tears us ruthlessly from everything else. Has the Cross so seized upon your life?

Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.

If we are really to live at all we must put our convictions into action.

Conviction is a force multiplier. If you want something, claim it in your gut. The universe itself responds to your inner certainty.

I wrote almost all of it in the deepest hope and conviction. Sifting my thoughts and choosing my words. Trying to say what was true. And I'll tell you frankly, that was wonderful.

Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.

The Atlantic really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.

If an individual agrees with everybody, he lacks conviction; if he likes everybody and is everybody's friend, he is indifferent to one and all.

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Self-confidence carries conviction; it makes other people believe in us.