If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“If you truly have faith in your convictions, then your convictions should be able to stand criticism and testing.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
Leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration motivated by passion, generated by vision, produced by a conviction, ignited by a… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
In our timidity and our shoddy opportunism we are always stirred when a man appears on the horizon willing to stake his… — Clyde S. Kilby Copy Share Image
Have FAITH in what you know is right, TRUST your instincts, listen to YOUR voice, and keep a POSITIVE attitude no matter… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Our conviction is that human life and limb are a very special possession given by God to man and that no one… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
I try to help people see they're going to have these times in which they turn away, in which they deny Christ… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“ Die Gewohnheit einer Meinung erzeugt oft völlige Ueberzeugung von ihrer Richtigkeit, sie verbirgt die schwächeren Theile davon, und macht uns unfähig,… — Jöns Jacob Berzelius Copy Share Image
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Allow me to add that it is my conviction that the contents of Der Stuermer as such were not (incitement). During the… — Julius Streicher Copy Share Image
And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'It could be worse.' It could… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The traveler to the United States will do wellto prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Whereas much of what we know from ancient history is derived from one or two sources, we have no fewer than nine… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
Darwinian evolution may be the most truthful and powerful idea ever generated by Western Science, but if we continue to illustrate our… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In the ranks of the movement [National Socialist movement], the most devout Protestant could sit beside the most devout Catholic, without coming… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says every thing, saying, at last, something good; but a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
A very real barrier to faith is this feeling of self-sufficiency, this unrealistic idea that one can accomplish everything by his or… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
One of the many burdens of the person professing Christianity has always been the odium likely to be heaped upon him by… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
When the German people trusting to the promises made by President Wilson in his Fourteen Points, laid down their arms in November… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
To have Christian hope means to know about evil and yet to go to meet the future with confidence. The core of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a conviction that a few weeks spent in a well organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Personal convictions are not politics. Personal convictions, if they become the subject of a group conviction, they become a cult. — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
All the Junos, the Grammy nominations, the gold and platinum records, did nothing to assuage my conviction that I was an out-and-out… — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
The real test that I believe that God is love is that tragedies don't separate me from the conviction that God is… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
Trying To Convince People With Ideas And Words Is More Effective Than Trying To Force People To Do What You Want... — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
In everybody's career there comes a moment when there is slowdown but one has to have that conviction and belief in themselves. — Satish Kaushik Copy Share Image
On eluding conviction after mistrial: Why me? I am blessed. I can't complain. I am walking out the door. I am going… — John A. Gotti Copy Share Image
What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions. — William Penn Copy Share Image
We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Pacifism is a wonderful conviction in theory, but only in theory. Real life has a way of eventually rubbing even the most… — Anthony Beal Copy Share Image
Confidence is something you acquire in yourself by believing in self ability with courage and conviction. — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image