Conviction Quotes
1326 Conviction quotes by 908 unique authors
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If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the…
— John Dos Passos
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The records are black boxes for me. Like, if you want to know who I am, my views, my perspective, things I love, things I…
— Katy Perry
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My politics were pretty anarchistic until 1969 when the Montreal police went on strike. Within hours, mayhem and rioting broke out and the Mounties had…
— Steven Pinker
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Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do…
— River Phoenix
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People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and…
— Ayn Rand
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I don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction.
— Ryan Reynolds
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Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.
— Tony Robbins
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And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is…
— Mitt Romney
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People of different faiths, like yours and mine, sometimes wonder where we can meet in common purpose, when there are so many differences in creed…
— Mitt Romney
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Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
— Jean Rostand
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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the…
— Bertrand Russell
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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I think I'm the best candidate not just to beat President Obama, but to do what is necessary to get this country going, a conviction…
— Rick Santorum
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I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person…
— Greta Scacchi
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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows…
— David Seabury
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Political activists of all stripes are usually a wacky bunch, and never more so than in a system like Britain's, where power is effected via…
— Will Self
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
— George Bernard Shaw
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You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which…
— Florence Scovel Shinn
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To operate based on conviction and belief requires an acceptance that your actions could get you fired. This is different from pig-headed bravado, and it…
— Simon Sinek
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to…
— Jane Smiley
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The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
— Gertrude Stein
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It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
— John Steinbeck
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