Conviction Quotes

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.

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.

Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self. Style is opinion, hung washing, the caliber of a bullet, teething beads.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

The Martha Stewart trial makes clear how far women have risen in the business world. America can be proud of our equal-opportunity prosecution and conviction.

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

People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.

In a world where spiritual confusion is increasing, GodQuest helps bring clarity and conviction. This is a terrific resource for developing a solid foundation for faith.

The first duty of man is to take none of the principles of conduct upon trust; to do nothing without a clear and individual conviction that it is right to be done.

I love opposition that has convictions.

Survival is not possible if the best of us lack all conviction, while the worst of us are full of passionate intensity.

Whatever I am today is a product of that conviction that victory through Christ is victory indeed. The rest is history.

The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration.

To seek truth and to utter what one believes to be true can never be a crime. No one must be forced to accept a conviction. Conviction is free.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

Have the conviction that God is your only real relative and friend.

Every fool stands convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool. The faultier a person's judgement the firmer their convictions.

Every dogma has its day.

Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.

The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.

[O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before.

Have the courage of your convictions once you have made a decision.

Knowing exactly what you want to do, with unwavering conviction, is the spark that generates everything.

The modern world detests authority but worships relevance. Our Christian conviction is that the Bible has both authority and relevance, and that the secret of both is Jesus Christ

There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.

It has long been my conviction that a masked man with a gun is a target. I see no reason to change that view.

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.

The conviction that Christian doctrine matters for Christian living is one of the most important growth points of the Christian life.

Leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration motivated by passion, generated by vision, produced by a conviction, ignited by a purpose.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you. To what indifference people may come, to what profound conviction of having lost the right track forever.

Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own.

I can live with failure if it is born of conviction.

In the end, leaders are defined by the convictions they hold.

With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.

No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.

The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something

The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.

What convinces is conviction.

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times.

Be true to your own highest convictions.

The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

Everybody has their own path. I just believe that with conviction and discipline you can make anything happen.

Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting.

I think it is very important for you to do two things: act on your temporary conviction as if it was a real conviction; and when you realize that you are wrong, correct course very quickly.

I have a conviction that it's only when you are put at full stretch that you can realise your full potential.

There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on matters of knowledge, of truth, of rational conviction.

We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral importance to our actions on earth.

The keys to success, in business and in life, are truthfulness, the ability to take and give, honest and well-intended feedback, strength of character and conviction in one's principles