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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

Acting on your convictions is the ultimate test of your faith in your convictions. — Murad S. Shah

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

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved
loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. — Victor Hugo

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

everywhere for it. And, as she sought, the conviction came into her heart that her husband had taken it. What she had in her purse was all the money — D.H. Lawrence

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

Once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. - MUHAMMAD ALI — Hal Elrod

Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide. — Andrew Johnson

If no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no wars, he said. — Leo Tolstoy

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. — Plato

Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world. — J.C. Ryle

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens. — Powell Clayton

Once you have tasted conviction, you can't bear to keep swallowing complacency. — Ann Voskamp

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

Let me say from conviction that tears are the outlet of the heart. — Watchman Nee

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

Pass on it if you're not passionate; for convictions create clear choices. — Ryan Lilly

Real revival does not begin with joyous singing. It begins with conviction and repentance on the part of Christians. — Vance Havner

Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden. — Harold Bloom

Rhett: If you've made up your mind to impale someone, do it with conviction. — Rowena Cherry

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

Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God — R.C. Sproul

I have a firm conviction that I am immortal until my work is done. — Lottie Moon

He (Larry Summers) can frame arguments with such force and conviction that people think he knows more than he does. — Ron Suskind

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. — Vaclav Havel

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

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

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

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

Whatever you believe, with conviction, becomes your reality. — Brian Tracy

It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge. — Albert Einstein

He'd once had a religious conviction, but had been acquitted through lack of evidence. — Nigel Cole

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

When sin becomes bitter, then Christ becomes sweet. Thomas Merton — Matt Chandler

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

I had been playing Shostakovich on the stereo, but without conviction. — John Le Carre

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

Faith is the 'yes' of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one's life. — Martin Luther

THE SUPREME HAPPINESS IN LIFE IS THE CONVICTION THAT WE ARE LOVED V. HUGO — Victor Hugo

The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or moreover, loved in spite of ourselves. — Victor Hugo

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

It is my conviction that secrets are more costly in the long run than honesty. — Kathryn Harrison

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

I had cherished a profound conviction that her bringing me up by hand, gave her no right to bring me up by jerks. — Charles Dickens

I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction. — David Petraeus