Conviction Quotes

1326 Conviction quotes by 908 unique authors

When others spoke of the fear of war, you spoke of the need for warriors and peace through strength. When others bewailed the failure of… — Margaret Thatcher
For the multiculturist/diversity crowd, culture, ideas, customs, arts and skills are a matter of racial membership where one has no more control over his culture… — Walter E. Williams
No it was not the novelty, and it was not the danger and the adventure (although these had their charm). It was certainly not a… — Pauline Gower
It is a high Christian privilege to pray for one another within each local church body and then for other believers throughout the world. As… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
It is my conviction that your generation is better and stronger than was ours... better in many ways! I have the faith that you young… — Boyd K. Packer
The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own culture. In Yeats'… — Brad Blanton
Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true. — H. L. Mencken
The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall… — George Will
I do have strong convictions and political opinions, but I don't think it's necessary to imbue my photographic work with them. I use photography as… — Michael Kenna
Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we call creative develops almost instantaneously in the mystic heat of inspirational… — Umberto Eco
Always follow these two rules: first, act only on what your reasoning mind proposes for the good of humanity, and second, change your opinion if… — Marcus Aurelius
Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him with favor; because… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind… — Arthur Schopenhauer
In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of… — Carl Jung
In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
... some kind of clean, pure feeling does live within us, existing apart from all our convictions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We recently had a referendum in New York about extending the forest preserve. The city voted for it by a large majority; yet as I… — Learned Hand
It was not the violence of our enemies [in World War I] that would undo us, I thought, but our own spiritual weakness, the shallowness… — Learned Hand
The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity. — George Bernard Shaw
The conviction: I will not tolerate this age. The freedom: the freedom to act on my conviction. And I will act. No one else has… — Walker Percy
I will do nothing lightly. When I walk, I will walk heavily. When I fight, I will fight with conviction. When I speak, I will… — Evan Tanner
Thankfulness grows best in the seed-bed of conviction, just as some plants must be placed in the soil in the winter if they are to… — Sinclair B. Ferguson
A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity… — Tabatha Coffey
I shall content myself with merely declaring my firm conviction that, for the seeker who would live in fear of God and who would see… — Mahatma Gandhi

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