Conviction Quotes

Too few have the courage of my convictions.

I just assume I'm right. Partially out of conviction and partially as a pose.

Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.

My only fixed truth is a belief in people, a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control their own destinies, they'll generally reach the right decisions.

Thankfulness grows best in the seed-bed of conviction, just as some plants must be placed in the soil in the winter if they are to flower in the summer.

War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare.

Americanism is a question of spirit, of conviction and purpose, not creed or birthplaces. The test of our worth is the service we render.

The one thing you can do for others is the manage your own life. And do it with conviction.

If your theological convictions are not producing a deeper love for others, then it's time to rethink some stuff.

It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.

How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic?

Any preacher who preaches beyond that which he has experienced is incapable of preaching with conviction.

It is a conviction that war is not an answer to human conflict any more than cannibalism is an answer to human hunger.

Always, our eyes look backwards with the conviction that then, and not now, was the golden age.

There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin.

It is my faith and conviction that the Constitution came not alone of the brain and purpose of man, but of the inspiration of God.

I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.

We've got to go to the people with bold ideas and candidates of conviction - we've got to be hotter than high school love.

I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.

Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, and by the immobility of our conceptions of them.

Neither the intensity of your feelings nor the certainty of your convictions is any assurance that you are right.

It is my deepest conviction that the children should be seen and heard as our most treasured assets.

Conviction is the conscience of intellect.

Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all; it's that which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction.

Nothing keeps people together like the exalted conviction that they alone are to be spared that eternal anguish of hell fire to which everyone else will be condemned.

Beware of making a fetish of consistency to your convictions instead of being devoted to God.

I've always had this deep-down conviction that I'm not like everybody else, and there's an amazingly exciting new life waiting for me just around the corner.

I should have the courage of my lack of convictions.

I only record songs that I really like and believe in and can sing with conviction.

The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man's way of life.

The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.

Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated.

I'm not offended until you think I'm offended.

How convinced are you that man was created in the image of God when you can't see the image of God?

Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.

It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions.

I have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues. Momentary success carries more power of conviction than reflections upon principles.

A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high order.

Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.

PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.

I approach this with - with an open mind and I'll do it on the basis of a deep conviction with President-elect Donald Trump.

Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.

The determination and conviction to succeed can only come from within.

Now, my friend, I beg you to consider that this blindness and unyielding hardness is the very core of your iniquity, and to be convinced that you are thus blind and stupid is true conviction of sin.

Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.

The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.

If you don't have your conviction you have to put your money where your mouth is.

I have no faith at all. I only hold convictions.

I just sing the song and I sing it with conviction, meaning and I get into the mood of every song I do no matter how much time I have in between.