Conviction Quotes · Page 9

It takes a disciplined person to listen to convictions which are different from their own.

— Dorothy Fuldman

It is my conviction that marriage is such a good idea, only God could have thought of it.

— Myles Munroe

[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.

— Margot Asquith

Sexiness is about being an individual and having conviction about what that is.

— Christina Hendricks

I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“When he woke his conviction of failure was somehow less inevitable.”

— Olen Steinhauer

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

— Louisa May Alcott

Passion paves way for action. Identify your passion. The intensity of passion is great indicator of your conviction.

— Anil Sinha

The only true hope for civilization-the conviction of the individual that his inner life can affect outward events and that, whether or…

— Stephen Spender

Ive been told by readers that they love how my heroes fall in love fast, first, and with conviction.

— Sylvia Day

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

— George Bernard Shaw

“In every change, ignite the new levels of creativity from the golden state of mind shake up long-standing beliefs with conviction and…

— Amit Ray

Freedom of speech means nothing to a people who are too weak in their convictions to speak out against the evil that…

— Billy Graham

The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right…

— James Madison

If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.

— Jacques Derrida

By 'happiness' I do not mean worldly success or outside approval, though it would be priggish to deny that both these things…

— Edith Sitwell

Without wishing in the slightest degree to disparage the skill and labour of breadmakers by trade, truth compels us to assert our…

— Eliza Acton

Lying is common in social life, often done for benign purposes, seldom draws severe sanctions, and many of the most notable leaders,…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

There are things about quitting the smoking habit for which nobody prepares you. Did I have any idea that I would indulge…

— Christopher Hitchens

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by,…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

A philosophy of the history of the human race, worthy of its name, must begin with the heavens and descend to the…

— Friedrich Ratzel

Those mortals who operate in the grey area between conviction and incredulity are in a position to choose most meaningfully, and with…

— Terryl L. Givens

I have come to the conviction that once one embarks on a concept for a building, this concept has to be exaggerated…

— Eero Saarinen

The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

In what touches their social convictions, most persons do not think. The threat of change, with all it suggests to them in…

— Storm Jameson

Duality is the real root of our suffering and of all our conflicts. All our concepts and beliefs, no matter how profound…

— Namkhai Norbu

Our conviction that the world is meaningless is due in part to the fact (discussed in a later paragraph) that the philosophy…

— Aldous Huxley

The world has always needed human beings who refuse to believe that history is nothing but a dull, monstrous selfrepetition, a selfperpetuating,…

— Stefan Zweig

"True science has no belief," says Dr. Fenwick, in Bulwer-Lytton's 'Strange Story;' "true science knows but three states of mind: denial, conviction,…

— H. P. Blavatsky

His contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn to treat…

— Angela Carter

[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of…

— Joseph Conrad

Ninety percent of selling is conviction, and 10 per cent is persuasion.

— Shiv Khera

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

It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.

— Anonymous

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

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

If they don't like who you are, tell them all to deal with but don't let them change you.

— Luxolo Mbuwako

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.

— Jane Addams

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

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin