Conviction Quotes

Don't follow the path. Go where there is no path and begin the trail. When you start a new trail equipped with courage, strength and conviction, the only thing that can stop you is you!

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

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

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.

One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.

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

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

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

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

Conviction is not repentance; conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance.

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

There are real solutions right now for us if we stand up with the courage of our convictions.

It is our firm conviction that mankind will live the happier when it has learned to live with music more worthily. Whoever works to promote this end, in one way or another, has not lived in vain.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his 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.'

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.

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

That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

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.

Beware lest we mistake our prejudices for our convictions.

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience.

But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe.

It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.

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

The people who are opposing the policy of apartheid have not the courage of their convictions. They do not marry non-Europeans.

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.

The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?

The secret of success is conviction and persistence.

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

For many Americans, Osama bin Laden is the paradigmatic Muslim, an absurd conviction for anyone who has lived with Muslims.

While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom, there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Faith is the conviction that God knows more than we do about this life and He will get us through it.

I am not a consensus politician. Im a conviction politician.

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

Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.

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

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

One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.

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

Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.

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

Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.