Conviction Quotes
1326 Conviction quotes by 908 unique authors
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My music is just about story telling. I don't have much to say, and I'm not trying to change anyone's mind. I'm just singing through…
— Sufjan Stevens
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To be in love involves the most irresistible conviction that one will go on being in love until one dies, and that possession of the…
— C.S. Lewis
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I wish to show those who deny us Patriotism that we know how to die for our country and convictions.
— Jose Rizal
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CONVICTIONS are lessons learned from experiences we’d never want to go through again, but wouldn’t trade for anything in the world.
— Mark Batterson
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In the end, leaders are defined by the convictions they hold.
— George W. Bush
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One can feel the urge, the need to give, coming from within him. He is such a pure and true person. It’s my deepest, most…
— Marcel Marceau
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The modern world detests authority but worships relevance. Our Christian conviction is that the Bible has both authority and relevance, and that the secret of…
— John Stott
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Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.
— Ann Voskamp
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For those who were desperate, my camera became an object of hope (...)Throughout my year-long coverage of the monsoon world, my strongest conviction was that…
— Steve McCurry
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Does not a misplaced optimism exist, common to all mankind, leading on to false conviction that social engagements, if dated sufficiently far ahead, will never…
— E. M. Delafield
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There is a certain strong sense of inner conviction that strikes, with a pang as that of birth, through the very soul, and which is…
— E. M. Delafield
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I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not…
— Lupita Nyong'o
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Unhappiness, I saw then, comes to each of us because we think ourselves at the center of the world, because we have the miserable conviction…
— Jacques Lusseyran
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Tolerance can be exercised only by those who have well-grounded convictions (although it will not always be exercised even by them). For such people tolerance…
— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
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Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the…
— Winston Churchill
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Parents who do not persevere in rearing their children according to their own convictions are not leaving them 'free' to develop on their own. Instead,…
— William V. Shannon
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The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the truth.
— Jeremy Bentham
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Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason…
— Harry S. Truman
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We too often forget that faith is a matter of questioning and struggle before it becomes one of certitude and peace. You have to doubt…
— Thomas Merton
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Stand up for what is right, regardless of who is committing the wrong.
— Suzy Kassem
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It is very much easier to work than to pray. Most of the missionaries are earnest workers. But are we all that we should be…
— Griffith John
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The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.
— Viktor Yushchenko
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The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to…
— Robert Dale Owen
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(They) were found guilty of continuing to promote the merits of Laetrile in cancer therapy in violation of terms of probation they had originally secured…
— Ernst T. Krebs
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My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada.
— Preston Manning
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