Conviction Quotes
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The people who are most bigoted are those who have no conviction at all.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Faith springs from understanding. It is a conviction that grows from understanding.
— Nancy Freeman Patchen
What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.
— Benjamin Todd Jealous
After all, what are any of us after but the conviction of belonging?
— Wallace Stegner
I still remember the five points of salesmanship: attention, interest, conviction, desire and close.
— Annette Bening
Have the conviction that God is your only real relative and friend.
— Mata Amritanandamayi
It is not enough to have the courage of your convictions, you must also have the courage to have your convictions challenged.
— Christopher Phillips
I love opposition that has convictions.
— Frederick The Great
A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.
— John Stuart Mill
The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.
— Alistair Cooke
No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites.
— Francois Fenelon
There is a compassion in rational thought that is sometimes missing in religious conviction.
— Ian McEwan
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
— Nicholas Butler
He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.
— Edmund Burke
Conviction is a good motive, but a bad judge.
— Albert Einstein
Have the courage of your convictions once you have made a decision.
— Walter Schloss
If there is one thing in which I hold complete confidence, it is the conviction of my own desirability.
— Anne Elisabeth Stengl
All politicians find it hard to address with conviction more than one emergency at a time.
— Max Hastings
How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic?
— Angela Carter
Great leadership has more to do with character, courage, and conviction than it does with specific skills or competencies.
— William A. Adams
Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.
— Milan Kundera
When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.
— Criss Jami
Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction.
— Van Morrison
Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
When your clarity meets your conviction and you apply action to the equation, your world will begin to transform before your eyes.
— Lisa Nichols
He stood a few meters from the step and spoke with great conviction, great joy. "Alles ist Scheisse," he announced.
All is shit. — Markus Zusak
Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.
— Andrew Johnson
Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.
— Powell Clayton
Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy.
— Joni Mitchell
There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.
— Sean O'Casey
Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
— Ramana Maharshi
Everybody has their own path. I just believe that with conviction and discipline you can make anything happen.
— Sonya Tayeh
Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.
— Lin Yutang
Commitment isn't measured by our belief itself or the depth of conviction regarding the belief, but by what we're willing to sacrifice to obtain it,
— Scott Hildreth
It is my conviction that when events are forgotten, buried in the cellar of the page, they are no longer even history.
— Katherine Ann Porter
PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.
— Ambrose Bierce
Guilt is not of God. We receive only a divine conviction with our shame swallowed up in Christ. Walk in truth and find freedom in His Grace!
— Alisa Hope Wagner
Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything.
— Ignatius Of Loyola
The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Delusional or not, maybe if I believe in a better world with enough conviction, and convince others to believe it as well, then it will be real.
— Emilyann Girdner
I do things by the book, even when the book is stupid. You know why? That's how we get the conviction.
— Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Rush of pine scent (once upon a time),the unlicensed conviction
there ought to be another way
of saying
this. — Paul Celan
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.
— B.J. The Chicago Kid
Real revival does not begin with joyous singing. It begins with conviction and repentance on the part of Christians.
— Vance Havner
When God brings deep conviction and I agree with Him about my condition, God restores my confidence in Him.
— Johnny Hunt
To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.
— Stephen Baker
Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.
— Jean Francois Revel
He (Larry Summers) can frame arguments with such force and conviction that people think he knows more than he does.
— Ron Suskind
The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
— Walter Lippmann
It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.
— Albert Einstein
What convinces is conviction.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Faith creates the foundation for conviction.
— Simon Soloveychik
His honor, rests in the very actions that led to his conviction and death. It is beyond your power to add to or detract from it.
— Isaac Asimov
I have always held the conviction that American citizens should keep as much of their hard-earned money as possible.
— Tim Walberg
Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Speak out tirelessly with conviction.
— Daisaku Ikeda
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Zealous conviction is a dangerous substitute for an open mind.
— Elizabeth F. Loftus
Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills.
— R. Scott Bakker
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
— Blaise Pascal
Whatever I am today is a product of that conviction that victory through Christ is victory indeed. The rest is history.
— T. B. Joshua
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
— John Steinbeck
If you aren't willing to fight for what you believe in, then you don't really believe in it. Faith is a verb.
— Kellen Roggenbuck
The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.
— Hannah Arendt
There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.
— Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Don't give up, courage is my conviction.
— Dhirubhai Ambani
Love is an indescribable sensation - perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Cannibal Cop' Conviction Overturned
— Anonymous
There is nothing worse than a completely ignorant person operating with complete conviction. That
— Juliette Harper
The conviction that, in Christ, God has reconciled all humanity and all creation leaves no room for nationalism.
— C. Christopher Smith
He who has no conviction always lies, no matter what he says.
— Adolf Von Harnack
