Quotes About Personal Convictions

#1. Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions of life in many cases.

Rick Renzi

#2. That in the face of smarter women it was best to beat a continuous retreat, to slash and burn one's own personal convictions before their sure-footed advance.

Gary Shteyngart

#3. I also hold very strong personal convictions about censorship. I don't believe in forbidden knowledge.

Andrea Cremer

#4. I do have my own personal convictions and values, and I live by those. But as an artist, as a portrait photographer, my job is to tell the truth and to capture someone's spirit on a certain day. And it's never the whole truth; it's the truth I experience in a very intense and intimate fashion.

Platon

#5. No one can become successful for you. It takes personal definitions, personal decisions, personal convictions, personal actions and personal responsibility to succeed in life.

Archibald Marwizi

#6. Personal convictions are not politics. Personal convictions, if they become the subject of a group conviction, they become a cult.

Norman Finkelstein

#7. Competition was as much as respecting your opponent's work as introspecting on your own.

Faraaz Kazi

#8. Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

#9. We cannot preserve philanthropic and charitable values if we detach them completely from our fundamental personal beliefs and convictions.

Robert L. Payton

#10. The contrast between the realization of his neglect and the fondness I had for my father was painful.

Yangsze Choo

#11. This is the saddest story I have ever heard.

Ford Madox Ford

#12. Logic may be conceived as ruling out what is absolutely impossible, and thus determining the field of what in the absence of empirical knowledge is abstractly possible.

Morris F. Cohen

#13. I feel like my convictions and my passions come from my very personal experience and the life that I've led. I feel the very naturally tendency to stand up for and use my voice for the things that I know about and the things that I feel passionate about.

America Ferrera

#14. "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 to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me?""

Ansel Adams

#15. And you would be unutterably flibbergasted if you knew the number of stout bicycles that partake serenely of humanity.

Flann O'Brien

#16. My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada.

Preston Manning

#17. 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 guaradians - those impersonal convictions that made a society a civilized community, and not the victims of personal rule.

Felix Frankfurter

#18. 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 in Saskatchewan.

Stockwell Day

#19. Whenever you go into an audition, you have to be as prepared as possible.

Hayley Orrantia

#20. The convictions we need to rally around should be about life giving, community transformation, holistic personal growth, sacrifice, beauty, blessing, and world renewal. Who wouldn't want to be a part of a people committed to something that brings personal meaning and makes the world a better place?

Hugh Halter

#21. No one ever got radicalized by being grateful

Gloria Steinem

#22. Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.

Geraldine Ferraro

#23. Personalism's insistence that only personality-finite and infinite-is ultimately real strengthened me in two convictions: it gave me metaphysical and philosophical grounding for the idea of a personal God, and it gave me a metaphysical basis for the dignity and worth of all human personality.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#24. A leader isn't born after 9 months' conception. When talents are discovered, skills are mastered & values are developed, a leader is born.

Israelmore Ayivor

#25. Obviously, following my convictions has come at a personal price, but they are important enough that I have been willing to endure the abuse.

Frederick Lenz

#26. Hitler spoke at length about the impact of his own personal Catholic faith on his political activism, noting that it was his religious convictions in particular that compelled him to be a ruthless anti-Semite.

Derek Hastings

#27. Then all of a sudden he'd taken two giant steps towards me, and before I knew it, had taken my face into his hands and the rest of me into the darkness of his wings and we were kissing each other in my little bedroom, in my little house, in my little town, while the mountains soared into the sky.

Jocelyn Davies

#28. Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father and how familiar His face is to us.

Ezra Taft Benson

#29. I really have to force myself to tidy up around the house.

Marcia Cross

#30. Their love was obvious and I hoped that one day Livvie and I could have what they did ... without the skinny jeans ...

C.J. Roberts

#31. Learn to say no, with an eye to saying yes to something else.

Mireille Guiliano

#32. You must learn not what people round you consider good or bad, but to act in life as your conscience bids you. An untrammelled conscience will always know more than all the books and teachers put together.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#33. Christmas can be the end of emptiness and waywardness; The beginning of happiness and purposefulness.

William Arthur Ward

#34. (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