Top 100 Quotes About Convictions
#1. I would replace the quality of sincerity with honesty, since one can hold a conviction sincerely without examining it, while honesty would require that one subject one's convictions to frequent scrutiny.
Christopher Phillips
#2. When an individual is motivated by great and powerful convictions of truth, then he disciplines himself, not because of the demands of the church, but because of the knowledge within his heart
Gordon B. Hinckley
#3. Humility applied to convictions does not mean believing things any less; it means treating those who hold contrary beliefs with respect and friendship.
John Dickson
#4. Convictions and beliefs! .. what do they have to do with religion!
Tim Allen
#5. 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 convictions.
Marilyn Monroe
#6. Don't worry about what others think of you. It doesn't matter as long as you have your own Convictions and are proud of what you do.-RVM
R.v.m.
#7. Is the marketing effort designed to convey the candidate's convictions, or are the convictions expressed by the candidate the reflections of a "big data" research effort into individuals' likely preferences and prejudices?
Henry Kissinger
#8. The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions.
Valentina Tereshkova
#9. No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#10. I am not so weak as to submit to the demands of the age when they go against my convictions. I spin a cocoon around myself; let others do the same. I shall leave it to time to show what will come of it: a brilliant butterfly or maggot.
Caspar David Friedrich
#11. It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.
George Eliot
#12. Art is neither a muscle nor a cure for ugliness. Ugliness has its own reasons and convictions to stay here. Art has a patience of a civilized, patience to withhold the gentleness of the civilization.
Ashutosh Gupta
#13. Your fixed convictions concerning the things that really matter mold your destiny.
Emmet Fox
#14. What we need is some people to stand up with the courage of their convictions, to do what they promised when they ran for election, and fight to stop Obamacare.
Jim DeMint
#15. A great designer does not seek acceptance. He challenges popularity, and by the force of his convictions renders popular in the end what the public hates at first sight.
Charles James
#16. Be in a close association with your creator whose is ever ready to direct your plans. Always ensure your convictions are divine and backed by a Godly approval.
Israelmore Ayivor
#17. There is nothing more powerful than this moment your living, now, more powerful than your convictions and truths, spend time with what your heart desires and souls screams for. Life ends a day before we know it, it's so important to chase everything that matters to you.
Nikki Rowe
#19. I've always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
Carl Sagan
#20. Pass on it if you're not passionate; for convictions create clear choices.
Ryan Lilly
#21. No two people see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will often apply the same principle, recognized by both, differently. Even one and the same person won't always maintain the same views and judgments: earlier convictions must give way to later ones.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#22. 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
#23. One of the rooted convictions of each member of the human race is that he or she is able without difficulty to open a door which has baffled their fellows.
P.G. Wodehouse
#24. Solitude is one of our great superpowers ... Solitude is the key to being able to make effective decisions and then having the courage of convictions to stand behind those decisions.
Susan Cain
#25. We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#26. I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope - the door of opportunity - is to be shut upon any man, no matter how worthy, purely upon the grounds of race or color. Such an attitude would, according to my convictions, be fundamentally wrong.
Theodore Roosevelt
#27. Religions are all living faiths and their essence does not consist in their externals such as rituals, methods of prayer, ceremonies, etc. It rather consist in the inner beliefs and convictions which they carry along with them and which give their followers a distinctive character and way of life.
Kedar Nath Tiwari
#28. I think, irrespective of your race, everybody has moments in life where they don't fit in, or where they try to puzzle through who they really are or to find the courage of their convictions.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw
#29. I need a suit of armor and the courage to stand behind my convictions to fight for what I want.
Ella Frank
#30. It is striking that even some who clearly have solid doctrinal and spiritual convictions frequently fall into a lifestyle which leads to an attachment to financial security, or to a desire for power or human glory at all cost, rather than giving their lives to others in mission.
Pope Francis
#32. Personal convictions are not politics. Personal convictions, if they become the subject of a group conviction, they become a cult.
Norman Finkelstein
#33. (Vice President) Garner has taken his personal smallness, his lack of generosity, and forged it into a political principle. He has no imagination, no convictions, and he substitutes political cynicism for social understanding.
Hamilton Basso
#34. Children talk themselves out of their convictions as they grow up and become distracted by their huge selfish selves. All the literature is consistent on this point. Children begin to think they've imagined us.
Gregory Maguire
#35. The very ones whose social pressure cause you to compromise will despise you for it. They probably respect your convictions,
and many of them wish they had the moral stamina to stand alone.
May the Lord give you added courage to be a witness for Him,
even in a hard place.
Billy Graham
#36. Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour.
Edward Kennedy
#37. Who cares, who cares. The perennial adolescent riposte. I cared, of course. I cared what people thought. I always did care. Unlike Laura, I have never had the courage of my convictions.
Margaret Atwood
#38. The decision as to when to photograph, the actual click of the shutter, is partly controlled from the outside, by the flow of life, but it also comes from the mind and the heart of the artist. The photograph is his vision of the world and expresses, however subtly, his values and convictions.
Paul Strand
#39. The late Dr. Harry Ironside once said, "Beware lest we mistake our prejudices for our convictions." To be sure, we must deplore wickedness, evil, and wrongdoing, but our commendable intolerance of sin too often develops into a deplorable intolerance of sinners. Jesus hates sin but loves the sinner.
Billy Graham
#40. This book is written for those who want more Jesus. It is for those who are bored with what American Christianity offers. It is for those who don't want to plateau, those who would rather die before their convictions do.
Francis Chan
#41. The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs & convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than what these words designate.
Octavio Paz
#42. I don't need to have my convictions confirmed by a show of numbers. However, being among people in front of a band leads me to believe that all is not lost, that humans, now and then, can communicate on a higher level than the political and the practical.
Henry Rollins
#43. He counts votes before he decides what to have for breakfast.
John Grisham
#44. We need people who influence their peers and who cannot be detoured from their convictions by peers who do not have the courage to have any convictions.
Joe Paterno
#45. When we are convinced of some great truths, and feel our convictions keenly, we must not fear to express it, although others have said it before us. Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Luc De Clapiers
#46. We all like to hear a man speak out on his convictions and principles. But at the same time, you must understand that when you're running on a ticket, you're running with a team.
Richard J. Daley
#47. If we are really to live at all we must put our convictions into action.
Margaret Sanger
#48. Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can't have it both ways.
Carlos Santana
#49. The people who are opposing the policy of apartheid have not the courage of their convictions. They do not marry non-Europeans.
P. W. Botha
#50. What a fine thing to be as rude as that with such convictions.
Eilis Dillon
#51. The Day We Let Our Convictions Define Our Life Rather Than Our Insecurities, Our True Journey
Begins.
Shahid Kapoor
#52. One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.
Mahatma Gandhi
#54. I don't know any other way to live but to wake up every day armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.
Wole Soyinka
#55. Let's stop and think for a moment. Is sacrifice a virtue? Can a man sacrifice his integrity? His honor? His freedom? His ideal? His convictions? The honesty of his feeling? The independence of his thought?
Ayn Rand
#56. Some see in our rancorous politics a surfeit of moral conviction: too many people believe too deeply, too stridently, in their own convictions and want to impose them on everyone else.
Michael J. Sandel
#57. Even if it doesn't alter or change the end result even in the slightest... making decisions based on convictions that you believe in... and walking your own path... has it's own merit and worth. There's something to be said for not having... even on regret.
Tite Kubo
#58. Every fool stands convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool. The faultier a person's judgement the firmer their convictions.
Baltasar Gracian
#59. Nervousness always provokes mistakes, and mistakes lead to easy convictions.
S.R. Ford
#60. Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#61. Winston Churchill quote, the one where he says, Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense?
Brad Meltzer
#62. In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their own individual judgments, convictions and interests dictate.
Ayn Rand
#63. The Constitution provides that all Americans enjoy the right to live a life in accordance with their convictions of faith.
James Lankford
#64. All Nigerians of voting age are free to vote based on their convictions. It is our duty to defend and protect that basic right, and - let no one be in doubt - we will.
Goodluck Jonathan
#65. In my judgment, while it is the duty of Congress to respect to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every citizen ... not any ecclesiastical organization can be safely permitted to usurp in the smallest degree the functions and powers of the national government.
James A. Garfield
#66. When you appoint someone, you appoint somebody because of their character, their convictions, their abilities. And not because you have a belief, a confidence, in a foreordained outcome in any given decision.
Karl Rove
#67. Unfortunately, we cannot live our lives according to the moral and religious convictions or petrified dogmas of our forebears. We have an obligation to live by our own faith, forever renewing the traditions of the past and adapting them to the demands of own time and place.
Farquhar McHarg
#68. Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles
Lucretia Mott
#69. Look back at life. Far more than what people did to influence your Life , it is your Actions , Your Convictions, and your Thoughts that has got you where you are.
R.v.m.
#70. The gospels, never meant to report, but
rather to convince, are in no sense objective and dispassionate biographies. They are glowing accounts meant to persuade people of the writers' convictions.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#71. This is Maximilien de Robespierre, barrister-at-law: unmarried, personable, a young man with all his life before him. Today against his most deeply held convictions he has followed the course of the law and sentenced a criminal to death. And now he is going to pay for it.
Hilary Mantel
#72. 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
#73. Protect your vision. Prevail over adversity. Persevere in the midst of turmoil. Passionately act upon your convictions. Purposely walk into the day.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#74. I Have No Faith at All. I Only Hold Convictions
Ayn Rand
#75. A person who holds strong convictions might appear inflexible, impolite, or exceptionally obtuse, when they are merely direct.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#76. I am able to make a contribution ... Let me repeat my convictions, I can make a contribution to American painting.
Morris Graves
#77. 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
#78. Economic relationships do not operate on value-neutral laws, but are rather carriers of specific convictions about the nature of the human person - the person's origins and
destiny. There is an implicit anthropology and an implicit theology in every economics.
William T. Cavanaugh
#79. My libertarian beliefs have not always served me well. Like most people who hold strong ideological convictions, I find that, too often, my beliefs trump the scientific facts.
Michael Shermer
#80. If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others.
Blaise Pascal
#81. I don't think that my particular religious convictions should be held against me in this campaign any more than the Prime Minister's lack of convictions should be held against her.
Tony Abbott
#82. [On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.
Margot Asquith
#83. But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy. Would any one trust in the convictions of a monkey's mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind?
Charles Darwin
#84. Traditionally the investor has been the man with patience and the courage of his convictions who would buy when the harried or disheartened speculator was selling.
Benjamin Graham
#85. I want to stand on the belief that great things are the product of ordinary people who are made great when they stand.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#86. I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.
Chris Bell
#87. People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power. The only thing we should respect in a person's faith is his desire for a better life in this world; we need never have respected his certainty that one awaits him in the next.
Sam Harris
#88. If Relativity Theory kills our deepest convictions, why not start by finding out why we believed in them for millennia?
Felix Alba-Juez
#89. 40% of homicides go unsolved. You know, it's not a very good record. And, also, 95% of convictions in America come from plea bargaining, which is often coerced. It's like we have the worst of both worlds. We don't convict the guilty enough, and we coerce the innocent too much.
Bill Maher
#90. The more readily we admit the possibility of our own cherished convictions being mixed with error, the more vital and helpful whatever is right in them will become; and no error is so conclusively fatal as the idea that God will not allow us to err, though He has allowed all other men to do so.
John Ruskin
#91. 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 the courage of your convictions. If you think your move is good, make it.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#92. Hope that justice will be done to those brave men who stood up for their convictions.
Albert Einstein
#93. The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.
Horace
#94. People in those old times had convictions; we moderns only have opinions. And it needs more than a mere opinion to erect a Gothic cathedral.
Heinrich Heine
#95. One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the spirit, proves itself by skepticism. Men of conviction are not worthy of the least consideration in fundamental questions of value and disvalue. Convictions are prisons.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#96. The past was in them, still disturbing but no longer a governing history; the trauma strengthened the convictions they possessed about how to lead their lives.
Richard Sennett
#97. Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.
Frank Gifford
#99. If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
Leo Tolstoy
#100. The abyss beyond our beliefs is something we have to pass through in order to see the world anew, to see it in terms not dictated so much by our culture, our parents, or our religious convictions.
Sam Keen
