Conviction Quotes

1326 Conviction quotes by 908 unique authors

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities. — Saul Bellow
My war - and I have yet to win a decisive battle - is with the modes of thought that and conditioned feelings that prevail… — James Hillman
It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way. — Nhat Hanh
It takes so little, so infinitely little, for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning: love, convictions, faith, history. Human life… — Milan Kundera
People who carry in their hearts a strong conviction concerning the living reality of the Almighty and their accountability to Him for what they do… — Gordon B. Hinckley
For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most sonorous language employed… — James Branch Cabell
She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared… — Jeanette Winterson
He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than… — Franz Kafka
You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it… — Toni Morrison
Only her tight, tight eyes were left. They were always left...They were everything. Everything was there, in them...Thrown, in this way, into the binding conviction… — Toni Morrison
I am not a perfectionist, but I like to feel that things are done well. More important than that, I feel an endless need to… — Cristiano Ronaldo
I could tell Hugo was convinced that he would get to walk back up these stairs: after all, he was a civilized person. These were… — Charlaine Harris
Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power. The only thing we should… — Sam Harris
Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man gets lost in… — Robert A. Heinlein
I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology... Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern… — Bertrand Russell
Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills. — R. Scott Bakker
When it comes to individual destiny, there is no power greater in the universe then the conviction of the human soul to make a choice. — James Dashner
To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to write [...] so… — John Gardner
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. — Victor Hugo
Laila remembered Mammy telling Babi once that she had married a man who had no convictions. Mammy didn't understand. She didn't understand that if she… — Khaled Hosseini
I do not say that all lawyers are bad, but I do maintain that the general tendency is bad: standing up in a court for… — Patrick O'Brian
[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and… — John Steinbeck
Let our voices be heard. I hope they will not be shrill voices, but, I hope we shall speak with such conviction that those to… — Gordon B. Hinckley
So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure. — Gregory Maguire

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