Convictions Quotes · Page 3

Access to accurate information means very little in the face of strong convictions...

— John Michael Greer

“Don't write about ideas ... write about convictions of the heart.”

— Leonard Cohen

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

— Dag Hammarskjold

I have no faith at all. I only hold convictions.

— Ayn Rand

Your fixed convictions concerning the things that really matter mold your destiny.

— Emmet Fox

I have convictions: once an idea's in my head, it's very hard to get it out.

— Quique Setien

If you press me about how I feel about an issue, you're going to see my convictions.

— Kirk Cameron

I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth.

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that…

— Chris Bell

I don't feel comfortable with the glorification of violence. But, as an actor who has had long periods of unemployment, you have…

— Charlie Cox

“In some counties, there is an actual named crime of ritual abuse and there too, there have been convictions.”

— Laurie Matthew

My libertarian beliefs have not always served me well. Like most people who hold strong ideological convictions, I find that, too often,…

— Michael Shermer

All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts…

— James Freeman Clarke

I cannot doubt that women will line up, like the men elected, with the groups whose political thinking and convictions are in…

— Edith Rogers

I don't know any other way to live but to wake up every day armed with my convictions, not yielding them to…

— Wole Soyinka

The debate over same sex 'marriage' has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans.

— Elliott Abrams

“Power is defined as an ability to do qualitative work with a quantitative passion, backed by a compelling conviction, directed by a…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Redesign your image, make it brighter! You can’t wait for any other time, any other person or any other skill. Once you…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Nobody should mistreat anybody... what I think this reveals is that - the interviewer that asked me these questions even used the…

— Kirk Cameron

I've never tried to measure myself on any scale. A person is more multifaceted than the label they often get stuck with.…

— Dmitry Medvedev

People don't seem to care about convictions any more. When I was a teenager, the deal was that, y'know, you had a…

— Marnie Stern

“[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or…

— Christine de Pizan

Political activists of all stripes are usually a wacky bunch, and never more so than in a system like Britain's, where power…

— Will Self

Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as they are based on the…

— Moses Mendelssohn

In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

There's always a backlash when you challenge people's convictions and their heroes.

— Pink

New York is a place where people have strong convictions.

— Wendy Long

Courageous convictions will drag the dream into existence.

— Neil Peart

If you have political convictions... keep 'em to yourself

— Johnny Cash

You don't have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.

— Rick Warren

The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.

— Elia Kazan

I don't consider myself a Hollywood liberal, but I have my convictions and my beliefs.

— Matt Dillon

Principles, convictions and motives are neither sold nor bargained for!

— Joseph Pulitzer

“Truth have been winning against lies, but truth is still struggling against beliefs.”

— Amit Kalantri

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

— Leo Tolstoy

The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Few of us take the pains to study the origin of our cherished convictions.

— James Harvey Robinson

The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does not owe to its own efforts.

— Frederic Bastiat

It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.

— Epictetus

convictions ... are always getting in the way of opportunities.

— Ellen Glasgow