Conviction Quotes

1326 Conviction quotes by 908 unique authors

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon… — William Butler Yeats
I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best. — Herman Melville
My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it. — E. M. Forster
To have Christian hope means to know about evil and yet to go to meet the future with confidence. The core of faith rests upon… — Pope Benedict XVI
I'd begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that life as we… — Ian Caldwell
When an individual is motivated by great and powerful convictions of truth, then he disciplines himself, not because of the demands of the church, but… — Gordon B. Hinckley
I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system… — Woodrow Wilson
In the spaniards heart is a great yearning for freedom, but only his own. A great love for truth and honor in all its forms,… — Cormac McCarthy
But then books, as I'm sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action. Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly,… — Alan Bennett
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. — C.S. Lewis
I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and… — Abraham Lincoln
You...you lost your faith?" "No...just my convictions. I still very much believe in God- just not a god who condones human tithing." Lev begins to… — Neal Shusterman
The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any. — Hannah Arendt
Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
My greatest personal mistake is ever to allow a word or moment that “doesn’t count,” i.e., that I do not refer to my own basic… — Ayn Rand
His contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn to treat one another with… — Angela Carter
I must add... my gratitude to you for the attention with which you have listened to me, for, from my numerous observations, our Liberals are… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
As always occurred when he quarreled over principles in which he believed passionately, he would end up gasping furiously for air and blinking back bitter… — Joseph Heller
I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
A king is a man strong of character and conviction who leads by example and truly cares for the suffering of his people,not a brute… — R A Salvatore
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction,… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these… — Thomas Jefferson
Memories assailed him of how gently she had spoken, touched, and moved; of how she'd loved him fiercely despite his mistakes and obsessions and weaknesses.… — Denis Johnson
Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it. — Nelson Mandela
Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can't have it both ways. — Carlos Santana

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