Conviction Quotes

1326 Conviction quotes by 908 unique authors

He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young was like being… — Cory Doctorow
Courageous convictions will drag the dream into existence. — Neil Peart
What is the best that lies within us? Of how much are we capable? None of us yet knows. An old Arabic legend tells of… — Jeffrey R. Holland
The difference between theism and nontheism is not whether one does or does not believe in God. . . Theism is a deep-seated conviction that… — Pema Chodron
God is never a God of discouragement. When you have a discouraging spirit or train of thought in your mind, you can be sure it… — John Ortberg
This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw… — Virginia Woolf
I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once, and cannot add up the sum.… — Carl Jung
Fortunately, I read (the books) without knowing what I was in for, and the best thing that can ever happen to a reader happened to… — Milan Kundera
Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one. — Milan Kundera
Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals… — Marquis de Sade
Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions; and thereby miss the wine of life, forgoing the very thing that makes living worthwhile. — Hunter S. Thompson
There are days when I miss my old convictions as if they were an amputated limb. But in general I feel better, and no less… — Christopher Hitchens
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide... — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'll never understand how a man can live his life With his finger on the self-destruct button, Holding it there day after day, Blinded by… — Neal Shusterman
I told graduates to not be afraid to fail, and I still believe that. But today I tell you that whether you fear it or… — Conan O'Brien
We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country. — Alexis de Tocqueville
A winner is a dreamer who never gives up — Nelson Mandela
For some time now she has had the conviction that life is about to change if only because it must. . . . — David Nicholls
Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God — R C Sproul
I hate what you represent." ... "Power without conviction." Isana replied, her tone lifeless, matter of fact. "Ambition without conscience. Decent folk suffer at the… — Jim Butcher
And now, Elric had told three lies. The first concerned his cousin Yyrkoon. The second concerned the Black Sword. The third concerned Cymoril. And upon… — Michael Moorcock
...yet, even before he left the room, - and certainly, not five minutes after, the clear conviction dawned upon her, shined bright upon her, that… — Elizabeth Gaskell
His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had… — Victor Hugo
Do you think the Bible is accurate? I mean, do you think it's real?" " I think Pastor Calvin is hot. In a fortysomething way.… — Becca Fitzpatrick
Even in merely reading a fairytale, we must let go our daylight convictions and trust ourselves to be guided by dark figures, in silence; and… — Ursula K. Le Guin

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