Conviction Quotes

1326 Conviction quotes by 908 unique authors

With each success your faith in the law will grow stronger, until you reach the point of total conviction. Then you will be invincible. — Roger McDonald
Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them, when fully understood,… — William Buckland
After all, a creature without passionate conviction doesn't cling to extremes. He surveys the scenery and makes sure his outfit doesn't clash. — Frank Bruni
The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of indestructible nature; it… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions. — Aldo Leopold
Marinate in your own being, grow in your wisdom, mature in understanding, be firm in your conviction, be strong in your Self. — Mooji
Leave greatness to others. Become so small that no one can see you. This conviction results from growing devotion to the supreme reality. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Few of us take the pains to study the origin of our cherished convictions. — James Harvey Robinson
He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions-such a man is .… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Jurors should acquit, even against the judge's instruction . . . if exercising their judgment with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction the… — Alexander Hamilton
How can death become joyous? How can death become happiness? When Al-Hussein asked his nephew Al-Qassem, when he had not yet reached puberty: 'How do… — Hassan Nasrallah
I have a conviction that it's only when you are put at full stretch that you can realise your full potential. — Edward Dunlop
But it is my total conviction that all the trappings of good leadership are generic and widely applicable whether you are standing in a khaki… — Peter Cosgrove
Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self. Style is opinion,… — Alexander Theroux
My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics. — Arthur Keith
Without the changed conditions, the product of a lost war, a revolution and a pervasive sense of national humiliation, Hitler would have remained a nobody.… — Ian Kershaw
Though anti-Semitism had been only one of several sources of Nazi voting strength, after 1933 Hitler placed anti-Semitic ideologues, the most important of whom were… — Unknown Author
From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its freedom, has been the ultimate… — Simon Schama
The only thing more important than being good is being real. Authenticity is kinder than resignation without conviction. Truth leads to good faster than good… — Alan Cohen
People who want to improve should take their defeats as lessons, and endeavor to learn what to avoid in the future. You must also have… — Jose Raul Capablanca
Making pictures is a very simple act. There is no great secret in photography...schools are a bunch of crap. You just need practice and application… — Elliott Erwitt
"Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me… — Ansel Adams
I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial power or subject;… — Ansel Adams
I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice,… — Albert Einstein
...there ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it may be considered. — John Stuart Mill

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