Conviction famous quotes

Somewhere in my head, a private conviction exists that 'Search is the Process' and 'Discovery the Art Form.
-- Abe Ajay

#Art #Discovery #Conviction

Mix a conviction with a man and...
-- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

#Men #African American #Conviction

It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions.
-- Adrian Tan

#Strong #Easy #Conviction

I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
-- Ahmed Ben Bella

#Action #Conviction

But then books, as I'm sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action. Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already. You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated. A book, as it were, closes the book.
-- Alan Bennett

#Book #Action #Conviction

It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.
-- Albert Einstein

#Development #Longing #Conviction

Convictions are not merely beliefs we hold; they are those beliefs that hold us in their grip.
-- Albert Mohler

#Belief #Conviction

When a denomination begins to consider doctrine divisive, theology troublesome, and convictions inconvenient, consider that denomination on its way to a well-deserved death.
-- Albert Mohler

#Doctrine #Way #Conviction

There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it.
-- Albert Schweitzer

#Suffering #Vegan #Conviction

Don't let anyone tell you no. Do it with conviction, do it with passion, and you'll find a way
-- Amanda Tapping

#Passion #Way #Conviction

Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Variables #Sometimes #Conviction

To discover depravity in those whom we have loved, is one of the most exquisite tortures to a virtuous mind, and the conviction is often rejected before it is finally admitted.
-- Ann Radcliffe

#Disappointment #Mind #Conviction

We don't do ambivalence well in America. We do courage of our convictions. We do might makes right. Ambivalence is French. Certainty is American.
-- Anna Quindlen

#America #Might #Conviction

It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.
-- Arthur Cohn

#Directors #Conviction #Figures

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.
-- Arthur Keith

#Ethics #Conviction #Concerned

There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.
-- Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#Stronger #Would Be #Conviction

One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.
-- B. Alan Wallace

#Lying #Conviction #Source

In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.
-- Benjamin Jealous

#Class #Great American #Conviction

Any preacher who preaches beyond that which he has experienced is incapable of preaching with conviction.
-- Billy Graham

#Conviction #Preacher #Preaching

Happiness and high come to you when you choose to live your life consistent with your highest values and your deepest convictions.
-- Brian Tracy

#Insperational #Live Your Life #Conviction

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect...geometry should be ranked, not with arithmetic, which is purely aprioristic, but with mechanics.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss

#Mechanic #Conviction #Arithmetic

Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can't have it both ways.
-- Carlos Santana

#Grace #Way #Conviction

Co-opted convictions will always betray you.
-- Charles M. Blow

#Conviction #Betray

Sexiness is about being an individual and having conviction about what that is.
-- Christina Hendricks

#Individual #Conviction #Sexiness

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.
-- Christopher Lasch

#Defense #Definitions #Conviction

Critics should stick to their convictions.
-- Chuck Eddy

#Sticks #Conviction #Should

I will yield to popular demands only insofar as they do not betray my own convictions.
-- Clara Schumann

#Yield #Demand #Conviction

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.
-- Claude Levi-Strauss

#Intellectual #Poverty #Conviction

Repetition of the same chant, the same incantations, the same affirmations leads to belief, and once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
-- Claude M. Bristol

#Belief #Affirmation #Conviction

However, it must always remain a dialogue, and never an imposition of the church's own convictions and methods. Propose, not impose. To serve, and not to dominate.
-- Claudio Hummes

#Church #Conviction #Method

Nearly all of our disasters come from a few fools having the courage of their convictions.
-- Coventry Patmore

#Motivational #Fool #Conviction

A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.
-- Curt Siodmak

#Men #Conviction

Speak out tirelessly with conviction.
-- Daisaku Ikeda

#Speak #Conviction

We led with our conviction rather than rational, because rational said it was impossible.
-- Daniel Ek

#Inspiring #Impossible #Conviction

Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account.
-- Dave Obey

#Dollars #Conviction #Bank Accounts

I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God.
-- David Brainerd

#Long #Conviction

I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction.
-- David Petraeus

#Politician #Conviction

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons...
-- David Seabury

#Powerful #Weapons #Conviction

Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us.
-- David Wolpe

#Spirituality #Mystery #Conviction

You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.
-- Denis Waitley

#Sticks #Assumption #Conviction

People will judge you according to your own convictions.
-- Dexter Scott King

#People #Judging #Conviction

Leadership implies movement toward something and convictions provide that direction.
-- Don Shula

#Leadership #Movement #Conviction

One difference between a conviction and a prejudice is that a conviction can be explained without getting angry.
-- Dorothy Sarnoff

#Differences #Prejudice #Conviction

I have a conviction that it's only when you are put at full stretch that you can realise your full potential.
-- Edward Dunlop

#Wisdom #Full Potential #Conviction

I have come to the conviction that once one embarks on a concept for a building, this concept has to be exaggerated and overstated and repeated in every part of its interior so that wherever you are, inside or outside, the building sings with the same message.
-- Eero Saarinen

#Messages #Building #Conviction

The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.
-- Elia Kazan

#Play #Conviction #Made

Conviction of sin draws me away from myself and toward GodSelf-condemnation, on the other hand, draws me down into myself and away from God.
-- Elyse Fitzpatrick

#Hands #Sin #Conviction

We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.
-- Emile M. Cioran

#Conviction

I will do nothing lightly. When I walk, I will walk heavily. When I fight, I will fight with conviction. When I speak, I will speak strongly. When I feel, I will feel everything. When I love, I will love with everything.
-- Evan Tanner

#Fighting #Speak #Conviction

That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

#Summer #Conviction #Familiar

One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
-- Faith Baldwin

#Life #Conviction #Spots

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

#Integrity #Passionate #Conviction

I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

#Library #Democracy #Conviction

I love opposition that has convictions.
-- Frederick The Great

#Conviction

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
-- George Eliot

#Writing #Conviction #Social

Change arises from conviction. Stop voting in fear. Start voting for hope.
-- George Monbiot

#Voting #Conviction #Arise

Increase your bets when you are confident and scale down your positions when you don't have conviction.
-- George Soros

#Conviction

In the end, leaders are defined by the convictions they hold.
-- George W. Bush

#Leader #Conviction #Ends

You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.
-- George W. Crane

#Mind #Open Mind #Conviction

Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust.
-- George Washington

#Style #May #Conviction

When we lock things away," he said with conviction, "we're really imprisoning ourselves.
-- Gordon Korman

#Locks #Conviction #Said

Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.
-- Gregory Maguire

#Doubt #Energy #Conviction

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
-- Hannah Arendt

#Conviction #Form #Capacity

Unpaid work never commands respect; it is the paid worker who has brought to the public mind conviction of woman's worth.
-- Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch

#Mind #Conviction #Command

Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.
-- Hector Hugh Munro

#Book #Sophie #Conviction

No Legislature can really destroy a religious conviction, except by exterminating its holders. It is historically too late to do that, and we shall live to see the drowned Egyptians on the seashore even yet.
-- Henry Parry Liddon

#Religious #Too Late #Conviction

Even when you err, it is a thousand times better to err out of conviction than to hide your true opinion to respect some authority.
-- Houston Stewart Chamberlain

#Opinion #Conviction #Authority

An indictment is not a conviction.
-- Howard Coble

#Conviction #Indictment

I can live with failure if it is born of conviction.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Conviction #Born

and he would probably not agree with my conviction that a sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. But who can say for sure? Humor is a very private thing.
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Sense Of Humor #Sanity #Conviction

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.
-- Jane Addams

#Principles #Belief #Conviction

We forget that the accumulation of knowledge and the holding of convictions must finally result in the application of that knowledge and those convictions to life itself.
-- Jane Addams

#Forget #Conviction #Results

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
-- Jean Rostand

#Independent #Belief #Conviction

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal
-- Jeane Kirkpatrick

#Democracy #Conviction #Unshakable

She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.
-- Jeanette Winterson

#Guarantees #Boat #Conviction

We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must.
-- Jim Cramer

#Optimistic #Conviction

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.
-- John F. Kennedy

#4th Of July #Commitment #Conviction

Without conviction that you can make change happen, you will not act, even if you see the vision. Your feelings will hold you back.
-- John P. Kotter

#Feelings #Vision #Conviction

One of my pet theories is that readers have built-in BS detectors that enable them to recognize insincerity in writers. David [Halberstam] was sincerity to the core. He believed in what he wrote, and that conviction conveyed itself to readers.
-- Jonathan Yardley

#Pet #Sincerity #Conviction

I wish to show those who deny us Patriotism that we know how to die for our country and convictions.
-- Jose Rizal

#Country #Wish #Conviction

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.
-- Joshua Reynolds

#Mean #Language #Conviction

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

#Kitchen #Speak #Conviction

When you flip anything, you really you just have to have the courage of your convictions.
-- Julia Child

#Flip #Conviction

Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers.
-- Julia Gillard

#Realistic #Conviction #Given

There’s no basis or anything. I just have this conviction that appeared inside of me which I have to follow.
-- Jun Mochizuki

#Conviction #Bases

She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themselves… They belonged to her her and were her own, and she entertained the conviction that she had a right to them and they they concerned no one but herself.
-- Kate Chopin

#Long #Emotion #Conviction

Frenchwomen could not dress like Englishwomen without conviction of sin.
-- Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#Dresses #Sin #Conviction

Joy begins with our convictions about spiritual truths we're willing to bet our lives on, and truths that are lodged so deeply within us that they produce a settled assurance about God.
-- Kay Warren

#Spiritual #Joy #Conviction

I'm a man of convictions. If you press me about how I feel about an issue, you're going to see my convictions.
-- Kirk Cameron

#Men #Issues #Conviction

But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe…
-- Knut Hamsun

#Believe #Matter #Conviction

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
-- Leo Tolstoy

#War #Would Be #Conviction

the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
-- Lillian Hellman

#Hollywood #Television #Conviction

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
-- Logan Pearsall Smith

#Dark #Conviction #Drag

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
-- Lord Chesterfield

#Conviction #Convincing #Convince

I have a firm conviction that I am immortal until my work is done.
-- Lottie Moon

#Done #Conviction #Immortal

Hannah writes of love with compassion and conviction.
-- Luanne Rice

#Writing #Compassion #Conviction

... my convictions led me to adhere to the sufficiency of the light within us, resting on truth as authority, rather than 'taking authority for truth.'
-- Lucretia Mott

#Light #Conviction #Authority

If George W. Bush really has the courage of his convictions the United States very soon will either wind up dominating the United Nations (as it should) or rendering it impotent (which would probably be even better).
-- Lyn Nofziger

#Wind #United States #Conviction

The secret of success is conviction and persistence.
-- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#Persistence #Secret #Conviction

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Voice #Intuition #Conviction