When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm. — Edwin Louis Cole Copy Share Image
The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience. — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
If you don't have your conviction you have to put your money where your mouth is. — Avi Arad Copy Share Image
Hope that justice will be done to those brave men who stood up for their convictions. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy. — Geraldine Ferraro Copy Share Image
Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work. — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old… — Plato Copy Share Image
Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question… — Novalis Copy Share Image
Joy begins with our convictions about spiritual truths we're willing to bet our lives on, and truths that are lodged so deeply… — Kay Warren Copy Share Image
No one church has all the answers or the perfect map to the Promised Land, and I prefer to work out my… — Charley Pride Copy Share Image
Every [person] of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits [his or her] convictions, but we must all protest. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A mind unwilling to believe or even undesirous to be instructed, our weightiest evidence must ever fail to impress. It will insist… — F. C. S. Schiller Copy Share Image
Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A conventional valuation which is established as the outcome of the mass psychology of a large number of ignorant individuals is liable… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It gave me no pleasure to see people drink in my opinions if they seemed ignorant of Jesus Christ and the value… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
We must waste less. We must do more for ourselves and for each other. It is either that or continue merely to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Without religion, also there is a way, it could be this way, through education, through scientific findings, then you get conviction. Not… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
[T]he isolationism of the Left stems from the conviction that America is bad for the rest of the world, whereas the isolationism… — Norman Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Stands must be taken. If I am to respect myself I have to search myself for what I believe is right and… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The belief that man is an irresolute creature pulled this way and that by two forces of equal strength, alternately winning and… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
When any man expresses doubt to me as to the use that I or any other woman might make of the ballot… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love...Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
The poor lady must have dropped that", she said, and undid the gate stepping out to get it. Jared put his hand… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
Lonesome Dove is a great book that had the rare fortune of being made into a great movie. And now, through Bill… — Stephen Harrigan Copy Share Image
Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we call creative develops almost instantaneously in the mystic… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I am certain about what I will never do - but not about what my art will render. — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount. — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
My conviction is that a full professional also wants to live professionally. — Louis van Gaal Copy Share Image
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Beware of making a fetish of consistency to your convictions instead of being devoted to God. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image