Conviction Quotes

1326 Conviction quotes by 908 unique authors

I'm no use to anybody,' I say. 'I'm a cérébrale, can't you see that?' Thinking how funny a book would be, called 'Just a Cérébrale… — Jean Rhys
[O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary… — Joan Didion
Inside Laila too a battle was being waged : guilt on one side, partnered with shame, and, on the other, the conviction that what she… — Khaled Hosseini
This book is written for those who want more Jesus. It is for those who are bored with what American Christianity offers. It is for… — Francis Chan
The challenges in our lives are there to STRENGTHEN our CONVICTIONS. They are NOT there to run us over. — Nick Vujicic
The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards… — Arthur Schopenhauer
It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Be hated. One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it’s often the case that one is hated precisely because one… — Adrian Tan
I expect that you must receive top marks at school, young lady." Madeleine smiled as she stirred her tea. "There are always rewards for those… — Scott Westerfeld
There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting a pencil at… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thus, for followers of Christ, calling neutralizes the fundamental position of choice in modern life. “I have chosen you,” Jesus said, “you have not chosen… — Os Guinness
In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it… — Simone de Beauvoir
Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time! — Julia Child
I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I… — Milan Kundera
We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly. — Emile M. Cioran
Pray earnestly and fast with purpose and devotion. Some difficulties, like devils, do not come out save by fasting and by prayer. Ask in righteousness… — Jeffrey R. Holland
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist. — William Golding
But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower… — Charles Darwin
I've never doubted that you should be our leader. I've always believed that, ever since Firestar took you to the Skyrock to receive your nine… — Erin Hunter
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It is so important to see that we are all converted, that we have in our hearts a conviction concerning this great work. It is… — Gordon B. Hinckley
The disappearance of theology from the life of the Church, and the orchestration of that disappearance by some of its leaders, is hard to miss… — David F. Wells
From the Crusades, to the Inquisition, to American politics--the name of Jesus had been hijacked as an ally in all kinds of power struggles. Since… — Dan Brown
I've always had this deep-down conviction that I'm not like everybody else, and there's an amazingly exciting new life waiting for me just around the… — Sophie Kinsella
Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Who Wrote These Conviction Quotes

908 authors contributed a total of 1,326 Conviction Quotes, led by these top contributors: