Conviction Quotes · Page 5

Convictions in a politician are an infirmity, and may prove a very serious injury.

— J H Wallis

“Acting on your convictions is the ultimate test of your faith in your convictions.”

— Murad S. Shah

My aesthetic is probably closer to a 15-year-old's than my dad's, but I get his conviction.

— Zack Snyder

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

— Arthur Keith

Pink is the color of strength, a color of conviction, a color of decision making.

— Angad Bedi

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

— George Eliot

Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.

— H. L. Mencken

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

— Gertrude Stein

Conviction is not repentance; conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance.

— Martyn Lloyd-Jones

I think it is very important for you to do two things: act on your temporary conviction as if it was a…

— Andy Grove

“Feeding the family trumps conviction every time, Mary though, a basic law of the human condition.”

— Karen Essex

My father married once. I married once. This is a conviction of ours. This is the way we grew up.

— Chuck Berry

I felt strong around and always been around people who have very strong environmental convictions.

— Daryl Hannah

“Never, give in! Never give in! Never, never, never... In nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to…

— Anonymous

The big lock-up is about drugs. Here's the real scam. The drug war is one of the games to get more convictions…

— Jerry Brown

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

— Vance Havner

Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life…

— Malcolm X

Assertion of truths known and felt, promulgation of truth from the high platform of truth itself, declaration of faith by the mouth…

— J. G. Holland

Impressed with a conviction that the due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good Government, I have considered the first…

— George Washington

The common bond of humanity and decency that we share is stronger than any conflict, any adversity. Fighting for your convictions is…

— Wes Moore

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will…

— John W. Gardner

Stop waiting for others to tell you what you can do. Start putting faith into your own strengths and talents. Instead of…

— Jane Powell

I hate and fear 'science' because of my conviction that, for long to come if not for ever, it will be the…

— George Gissing

I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as…

— Greta Scacchi

My war - and I have yet to win a decisive battle - is with the modes of thought that and conditioned…

— James Hillman

“Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins…

— Erik Erikson

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is…

— Louis D. Brandeis

There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting…

— Anonymous

The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods…

— Bertrand Russell

Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and…

— Lewis Carroll

We will suffer a sharp painful disullisionment before we fully surrender. When people really see themselves as the Lord sees them, it…

— Oswald Chambers

It is so important to see that we are all converted, that we have in our hearts a conviction concerning this great…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

To me, the difference between a good marriage and a great marriage is conviction.

— Diane Greene

Ninety percent of selling is conviction and 10 percent is persuasion.

— Shiv Khera

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

— Sean O'Casey

Always stand for what you believe in because it might just be the change the world needs.

— Ashley Renshaw

That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Be the first when no one comes, be the last when all are gone.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

— Powell Clayton

Men are joined by conviction, sundered by opinion.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe