Conviction Quotes

1326 Conviction quotes by 908 unique authors

My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is… — Mahatma Gandhi
The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. — Eric Hoffer
No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people… — David Lloyd George
Faith is not a weak form of belief or knowledge; it is not faith in this or that; faith is the conviction about the not… — Erich Fromm
Having faith, beliefs, and convictions is a great thing, but your life is measured by the actions you take based upon them. — Nick Vujicic
A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human, will never command… — Max Lerner
As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it,… — Saul Bellow
One has to see oneself through one's actions, works, and mind. Knowing the Self by the self is not as easy as writing that line.… — B.K.S. Iyengar
It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions, --… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Change arises from conviction. Stop voting in fear. Start voting for hope. — George Monbiot
Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction… — Wystan Hugh Auden
It is my conviction that pure mathematical construction enables us to discover the concepts and the laws connecting them, which gives us the key to… — Albert Einstein
All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my talents, behaving with… — George Orwell
Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition. — Samuel Johnson
The conviction that all men are equal by reason of their natural dignity has been generally accepted. Hence racial discrimination can no longer be justified. — Pope John XXIII
Whichever way I turn, whatever phase of social life presents itself, the same conviction comes: Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of… — Susan B. Anthony
The chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions, and, in fact, one never knows exactly what he does believe… — Charles Dudley Warner
By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries. — Jacques Barzun
The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it whether they like… — Germaine Greer
Beneath everything else, North and West, there ran a profound, unvoiced, almost subconscious conviction that the [American] nation was going to go on growing-in size,… — Bruce Catton
The first duty of man is to take none of the principles of conduct upon trust; to do nothing without a clear and individual conviction… — William Godwin
We don't do ambivalence well in America. We do courage of our convictions. We do might makes right. Ambivalence is French. Certainty is American. — Anna Quindlen
Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff… — Robertson Davies
It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges… — Igor Stravinsky
One's belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one's conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we… — Igor Stravinsky

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