Convictions Quotes

358 Convictions quotes by 263 unique authors

In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval. — Gerald R. Ford
Funny to watch these Senators switching back and forth on Prohibition. Politics is a great character builder. You have to take a referendum to see… — Will Rogers
To know John Kennedy, as I did, was to understand the true meaning of the word. He understood that courage is not something to be… — Gerald R. Ford
Most of all we need an education which will create an educated mind. This is a mind not simply a repository of information and skills,… — Lyndon B. Johnson
I've been around in public life for a long time. I think people know what I stand for. They know that I have strong convictions,… — Malcolm Turnbull
Many causes produce war. There are ancient hatreds, turbulent frontiers, the "legacy of old forgotten, far-off things, and battles long ago." There are new-born fanaticisms.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I would rather have strong enemies than a world of passive individualists. In a world of passive individualists nothing seems worth anything simply because nobody… — Criss Jami
It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotry due to the strong convictions that they represent.… — Criss Jami
For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all… — Felix Frankfurter
Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement,… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions… — Stephen Jay Gould
When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm. — Edwin Louis Cole
Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened… — Stockwell Day
I don't consider myself a Hollywood liberal, but I have my convictions and my beliefs. — Matt Dillon
At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions. — Dag Hammarskjold
We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death. — Robert Green Ingersoll
It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions. — Robert Green Ingersoll
People should be respected for the strength of their convictions, and I also believe in freedom of expression. — Joe Lhota
Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience… — Malcolm X
Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding… — John McCain
I am not a Christian because God changed my life; I am a Christian because of my convictions about who Jesus Christ is. — Josh McDowell
A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness. — Bryant H. McGill
Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his… — Marilyn Monroe

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