There are ten church members by inheritance for every one by conviction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'The Atlantic' really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer. — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
A belief is something you will argue about. A conviction is something you will die for. — Howard G. Hendricks Copy Share Image
If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“If you plan to build walls around me, know this—I will walk through them.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction. — Beryl Bainbridge Copy Share Image
All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question and in consequence, to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
My conviction is that those fights need to be fought right now and can be won. And if in fact we have… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It is not faith per se that creates the problem; it is conviction, the notion that one cannot be wrong, that opposing… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds. — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
It is my conviction that physical courage at crucial moments comes from the sum of intellectual courage and integrity that you muster… — Michael Weisskopf Copy Share Image
I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When I first heard from the lips of Lucretia Mott that I had the same right to think for myself that Luther,… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Faith is the great motive power, and no man realizes his full possibilities unless he has the deep conviction that life is… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned. The doctrine of reprobation was taught by Calvin, whose joy in it… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid of being dead, that's to say there's nothing to be afraid of. I won't know I'm dead, would be… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I'd like to see more Canadians of diverse backgrounds engaging with parties that line up with their convictions and ideologies to make… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
The classic statement on polarization comes from Christ: 'He that is not with me is against me.' (Luke 11:23) He allowed no… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The more you look back into English history, the more you are forced to the conclusion that alongside civility and the deeply… — Anna Pavlova Copy Share Image
War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I have no hesitation in putting a name to the embodiment of all that I think is best about football. It's Paul… — Bobby Charlton Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why I, 'a medical man' decided to give up medicine was a firm conviction of the extraordinary influence… — Alister MacKenzie Copy Share Image
To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have reflected a great deal on that event, and continue to do so. I cannot give you a complete answer in… — John I. Jenkins Copy Share Image
What sort of power is it that really and truly renders the deity present? Human beings automatically think of God as someone… — Jon Sobrino Copy Share Image
“Moments later, Sona Kilroy, heading for the open doorway, stepped over the sergeant’s body. With an old auto-rifle in his left hand… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“By dying for a conviction a man proves only that he is sincere, not that he is right.” — Roland H. Bainton Copy Share Image
Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We led with our conviction rather than rational, because rational said it was impossible. — Daniel Ek Copy Share Image
Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction. — George W. Crane Copy Share Image
the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image