Conviction Quotes

1326 Conviction quotes by 908 unique authors

I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State,… — Theodore Roosevelt
Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God. The important consistency in a saint is not to… — Oswald Chambers
Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction. — Gregory Maguire
The kind of hope that I often think about…I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we… — Vaclav Havel
There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin. — Flannery O'Connor
Let the attitude of your life be a continual willingness to "go out" in dependence upon God, and your life will have a sacred and… — Oswald Chambers
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process… — Edward R. Murrow
His conviction of having no purpose in life other than to act as a distillation of poison was part of the ego of an eighteen-year-old.… — Yukio Mishima
Life is a test. It is only a test--meaning that's all it is. Nothing more, but nothing less. It is a test of our convictions… — Sheri L. Dew
What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I… — Oswald Chambers
You know, honey, Natalie's expecting her second." I arched my eyebrows at my mother, not following the change of subject. "Second what? Mortgage? Conviction? Chance… — Rachel Vincent
Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout this fresh, if… — Toni Morrison
I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea,… — Joseph Conrad
I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found. And this belief, which mounts now to the catharsis… — Thomas Wolfe
It really does no good to ask questions that reflect opposition to the will of God. Rather ask, What am I to do? What am… — Richard G. Scott
Sometimes we make our alliances not by the shape and color of our flesh but by the convictions of our heart. — Neal Shusterman
He's the kind of liar who totally forgets what he told you the last time, but he believes every single lie with such conviction that… — Holly Black
This book is dedicated to the people of America--strong, outspoken, intense in their convictions, sometimes wrong-headed but always generous and brave, with a passion for… — Paul Johnson
A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness to back one's… — Friedrich August von Hayek
People who are going to get along really well know it almost as soon as they meet. You spend a little while talking and everyone… — Banana Yoshimoto
Here is the point about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not hold… — Christopher Hitchens
It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine power we could… — Calvin Coolidge
It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction. — Harry Frankfurt
You cannot open the pages of the New Testament without realizing that one of the things that makes it so 'new,' in every way, is… — Sinclair B. Ferguson

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