Conviction Quotes

1326 Conviction quotes by 908 unique authors

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity… — B R Ambedkar
We do not want an official state church. If ninety-nine percent of the population were Catholics, I would still be opposed to it. I do… — John F. Kennedy
This re-appearance of the doctrine of freewill serves to support that of the pretension of the natural man to be not irremediably fallen, for this… — John Nelson Darby
Survival is not possible if the best of us lack all conviction, while the worst of us are full of passionate intensity. — John Silber
Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed ethics. This is why, when… — Theodore Beale
One of the things that made me suffer no regret when I was called away from the cramped intellectual jail of atheism into a wider… — John C. Wright
Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular scientific books I… — Albert Einstein
This weapon the atomic bomb has added an additional responsibility-or, better, an additional incentive-to find a sound basis for lasting peace. It provides an overwhelming… — Leslie Groves
The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy. And I am much mistaken, if experience has not wrought a deep… — Alexander Hamilton
...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of a self-sacrificing devotion… — Arthur Koestler
In order to have real prayer and action to change things, we must have conviction as to the need of prayer and action. In order… — John Mott
These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination — Mark Twain
That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the… — Learned Hand
There is not one state truly alive if it is not as if a cauldron burns and boils in its representative body, and if there… — Sukarno
The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course,… — William Osler
Happiness and high come to you when you choose to live your life consistent with your highest values and your deepest convictions. — Brian Tracy
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of all restrictions. It means possessing unshakable conviction in the face of any obstacle. — Daisaku Ikeda
Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in… — Aldous Huxley
The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and makes us incapable… — Jons Jacob Berzelius
In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent living men of… — Alfred Russel Wallace
The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible. — Alistair Cooke
This is the road I have tried to follow as a teacher: living my convictions; being open to the process of knowing and being sensitive… — Paulo Freire
Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith there is no anxiety and no doubt - just absolute confidence in yourself. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Who Wrote These Conviction Quotes

908 authors contributed a total of 1,326 Conviction Quotes, led by these top contributors: