Conviction Quotes
There is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole catalogue of human suffering as the first conviction that the heart of the being whom we most tenderly love is estranged from us.
Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.
One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.
A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.
Increase your bets when you are confident and scale down your positions when you don't have conviction.
Words saturated with sincerity, conviction, faith, and intuition are like highly explosive vibration bombs, which, when set off, shatter the rocks of difficulties and create the change desired.
Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying--but of acting against one's conviction.
When you flip anything, you really you just have to have the courage of your convictions.
It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.
Pastors are sent to utter the deep things of God for the conviction of sin, and for edification and comfort.
Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God
If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.
The conviction that all men are equal by reason of their natural dignity has been generally accepted. Hence racial discrimination can no longer be justified.
That is the conviction we must come to in our meditation, that the darkness cannot quench the light.
Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
I have a conviction that a few weeks spent in a well organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than a whole year of formal school work.
A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.
Unpaid work never commands respect; it is the paid worker who has brought to the public mind conviction of woman's worth.
One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.
Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.
There is no form of conviction more intimate and irresistible than that which arises from the inward teaching of the Spirit.
The Day We Let Our Convictions Define Our Life Rather Than Our Insecurities, Our True Journey Begins.
You can trust the Bible. You will never be a great Christian until you come to the unshakable conviction that the Bible is the Word of God.
Let us ... quietly accept our times, with the firm conviction that just as much good can be done today as at any time in the past, provided only that we have the will and the way to do it.
A mental picturing of that which we want, with the complete acceptance and the conviction that it is ours now, will bring it quickly.
The greatest challenge of Leadership maintaining personal conviction in a globalized world.
An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one, and Salammbo is the classical text-book instance.
Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
With each success your faith in the law will grow stronger, until you reach the point of total conviction. Then you will be invincible.
By the mind one is bound; by the mind one is freed. ... He who asserts with strong conviction: "I am not bound, I am free," becomes free.
Sometimes a journey arises out of hope and instinct, the heady conviction, as your finger travels along the map: Yes, here and here ... and here. These are the nerve-ends of the world.
The world cries for men who are strong; strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer.
If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but from conviction of national innocence, information and benevolence.
We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must.
Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers.
We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.
A king is a man strong of character and conviction who leads by example and truly cares for the suffering of his people,not a brute who rules simply because he is the strongest.
Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.
The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and makes us incapable of accepting the proofs against it.
We don't do ambivalence well in America. We do courage of our convictions. We do might makes right. Ambivalence is French. Certainty is American.
