Self Conviction Quotes

#1. There's no magic potion to remove you from a tough situation than your own self conviction and no poison as dangerous as self doubt. In no one has done it so far, you could be the one showing the way!

Anuranjita Kumar

#2. What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal.

Adi Shankara

#3. Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.

Margery Allingham

#4. He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#5. The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one's own sake
let us say rather, loved in spite of one's self.

Victor Hugo

#6. As more good comes your way, your belief will increase, until you move past it into the realm of conviction.

Stephen Richards

#7. A pure belief can not be forced on human's heart.
If it could, no need for terms such as 'I've told you'.

Toba Beta

#8. Confidence is something you acquire in yourself by believing in self ability with courage and conviction.

Anil Sinha

#9. Marinate in your own being, grow in your wisdom, mature in understanding, be firm in your conviction, be strong in your Self.

Mooji

#10. I'll never understand how a man can live his life
With his finger on the self-destruct button,
Holding it there day after day,
Blinded by an obsession to press it
But lacking the conviction to do even that.

Neal Shusterman

#11. I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.

Joseph Lancaster

#12. Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.

Ramana Maharshi

#13. If you forsake a path, it is because you were hoping for conviction from it. You seek conviction, not self-knowledge.

Idries Shah

#14. Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human arrogance off one pedestal after another of our previous conviction about our own self-importance.

Stephen Jay Gould

#15. Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing I had to do in life.

Will Self

#16. Conviction is having the mindset to never doubt your self-understanding

Gino Norris

#17. If we're being honest, we don't call ourselves royalty. If we're being honest, we call ourselves timid, confused, and insecure. All our self-loathing and self-promoting is a thin veil covering over our frightening conviction that we are nobodies.

Tony Reinke

#18. Most men get their deepest conviction of self-worth from a woman, wife, mother, or if they are highly conscious, from their own anima. The woman sees and shows the man his value by lighting the lamp.

Robert A. Johnson

#19. Walk free from the long shadows cast by small people.

Fennel Hudson

#20. The crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of a self-sacrificing devotion to the flag, a leader, a religeous faith or political conviction.

Arthur Koestler

#21. Compromise is a choice. As is the defence of one's self.

Fennel Hudson

#22. Internal conviction drives external action.

Todd Stocker

#23. To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

#24. To be calm and compassionate you need courage and conviction.

Solange Nicole

#25. To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

Mahatma Gandhi

#26. What do you think will be more effective when it comes to succeeding, believing you can or KNOWING you will? Let today be the last day you took timid steps of belief and start taking confident steps of purpose-driven knowing!

Steve Maraboli

#27. Pride lives on the defensive against anyone and anything that tries to subtract from its self-sustained worth. Confidence, on the other hand, is driven by the certainty of God-given identity and the conviction that nothing can take that identity away.

Beth Moore

#28. Self-esteem is an essential psychological need - no one can live with the conviction that they are fundamentally no good, so people who lack the real thing attempt to fake it.

Edwin A. Locke

#29. Do what you think is right. Don't let people make the decision of right or wrong for you.

Steve Maraboli

#30. So many people are able to do something in life, but when they compare what they have done to their larger environment, they feel they have not done anything!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#31. A conviction that you are a daughter of God gives you a feeling of comfort in your self-worth. It means that you can find strength in the balm of Christ. It will help you meet the heartaches and challenges with faith and serenity.

James E. Faust

#32. There's that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bullshitting you but they're doing it with such panache and conviction ... no, it's because they say exactly what you want to hear, at that point in time.

Irvine Welsh

#33. Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self. Style is opinion, hung washing, the caliber of a bullet, teething beads.

Alexander Theroux

#34. The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.

Eric Hoffer

#35. And most importantly, the next time someone asks you "Who are you?" you must answer in this simple way, with sincerity and conviction: "I am an Earth Citizen

Ilchi Lee

#36. Self-confidence carries conviction; it makes other people believe in us.

Orison Swett Marden

#37. A land ethic, then, reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and this in turn reflects a conviction of individual responsibility for the health of the land. Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal. Conservation is our effort to understand and preserve this capacity.

Aldo Leopold

#38. deal with self-righteous prosecutors who lie, cheat, stonewall, cover up, ignore ethics, and do whatever it takes to get a conviction, even when they know the truth and the truth tells them they are wrong.

John Grisham

#39. When you keep a strong image of what you want in your mind, and possess the conviction that it is yours by right, you send out powerful vibrations to the farthest reaches of the universe.

Stephen Richards

#40. My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.

Mahatma Gandhi

#41. Challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction. I believe that ambition and initiative will ultimately triumph.

Dhirubhai Ambani

#42. Perplexity isn't as noble as conviction, but perhaps more good is done in the name of muddling through uncertainty than is done hacking away with the righteous sword of self-confidence.

Gregory Maguire

#43. My advice to young entrepreneurs is not to accept defeat in the face of odds, and challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction.

Dhirubhai Ambani

#44. Unless you make tremendous efforts, you will not be convinced that effort will take you nowhere. The self is so self-confident that unless it is totally discouraged it will not give up. Mere verbal conviction is not enough. Hard facts alone can show the absolute nothingness of the self-image.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#45. Stealing memories was stealing time. I got so mad, I lost all fear. I didn't care what happened. I want to live! I told myself. I will live. I will get out of this insane netherworld and get back my stolen memories and live. Forget the end of the world, I was ready to claim my whole self.

Haruki Murakami