Top 39 Strong Convictions Quotes
#1. 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
#2. A person who holds strong convictions might appear inflexible, impolite, or exceptionally obtuse, when they are merely direct.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#3. Biblical convictions are essential for spiritual growth and maturity. What is ironic today is that people often have strong convictions about weak issues (football, fashion, etc.) while having weak convictions about major issues (what is right and what is wrong).
Rick Warren
#4. I've been around in public life for a long time. I think people know what I stand for. They know that I have strong convictions, committed principles and I'm prepared to stand up for them.
Malcolm Turnbull
#5. Strong convictions do not necessarily signal a powerful sense of self: very often quite the opposite. Intensely held beliefs may be no more than a person's unconscious effort to build a sense of self to fill what, underneath, is experienced as a vacuum.
Gabor Mate
#6. The people who are good at being civil often lack strong convictions and people who have strong convictions often lack civility.
Martin E. Marty
#7. I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
Imelda May
#8. It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions.
Adrian Tan
#9. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
Louisa May Alcott
#10. The public only knows one side of [Mark Mark Twain] - the amusing part. Little does it suspect that he was a man of strong convictions upon political and social questions and a moralist of no mean order.
Andrew Carnegie
#11. If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?
Cecelia Ahern
#12. Leave no room for fear and excuses. Be strong in spirit and possess unwavering convictions. Choose to be an optimist and commit to succeed.
Archibald Marwizi
#13. So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit the validity of our new-found convictions.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#14. As to the war, while it is always thought rash to have any strong military convictions, I have always believed that if they would go straight to Sebastopol early in the season they would take it with little difficulty.
Francis W. Newman
#15. When everything else seems unclear, at least I'll know I do it for the joy it brings.
Ani DiFranco
#16. This book is dedicated to the people of America
strong, outspoken, intense in their convictions, sometimes wrong-headed but always generous and brave, with a passion for justice no nation has ever matched.
Paul Johnson
#17. I think it helps in any comedy room for a woman to have very strong, respected convictions, because then it opens the door up a little bit for other women to have that.
Paula Pell
#18. Those professions which are not so much involved in life itself as concerned with abstract truths are the most dangerous for the young man whose principles are not yet firm and whose convictions are not yet strong and unshakeable.
Karl Marx
#19. My parents' convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape of '90s grunge - if you got it now, you would think it was the 'Singles' soundtrack.
Adam Pally
#20. He grinned at me and whispered, I'm going to kiss you now. It'll be a big one, so don't hit me.
Jennifer Echols
#21. Be strong and follow your own convictions. You can't assume there is a lot of time to do what you like. This is what David Bowie is afraid of: that he will die before he gets a chance to make a real strong contribution.
Marc Bolan
#22. I wasn't prepared to get a mammogram until I was 40 years old, like I'd been told. I never in my wildest dreams expected anything to be wrong.
Giuliana Rancic
#23. If, however, there is to be a war of nerves let us make sure our nerves are strong and are fortified by the deepest convictions of our hearts.
Winston Churchill
#25. Faith and humility are at their root one, and that we can never have more of true faith than we have of true humility. It is possible to have strong intellectual convictions and assurance of the truth while pride is still in the heart, but it makes living faith, which has power with God, impossible.
Andrew Murray
#26. Have remained true to my deepest convictions, I mean to the courage of those who are born to be defeated, the weaknesses of the strong, and the tragedy of misunderstandings and missed opportunities, which I have done my best to
Penelope Fitzgerald
#27. Thanks to his complex convictions, made strong with the forces of animus and anima, the alchemist believes he is seizing the soul of the world, participating in the soul of the world. Thus, from the world to the man, alchemy is a problem of souls.
Gaston Bachelard
#28. I have remained true to my deepest convictions. I mean the courage of those who are born to be defeated, the weaknesses of the strong, and the tragedy of misunderstandings and missed opportunities, which I have done my best to treat as comedy - for otherwise how can we manage to bear it?
Penelope Fitzgerald
#29. I also hold very strong personal convictions about censorship. I don't believe in forbidden knowledge.
Andrea Cremer
#30. I look up to Tegan & Sara, obviously, Adele and Natalie Maines from the Dixie Chicks. All these artists are strong in their convictions, and they haven't changed who they are for the music business.
Mary Lambert
#31. Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can't fake a thought.
Iain Reid
#32. Gardening is always more or less a warfare against nature. It is true we go over to the 'other side' for a few hints, but we might as well abandon our spades and pitchforks as pretend that nature is everything and art nothing.
Shirley Hibberd
#33. I felt strong around and always been around people who have very strong environmental convictions.
Daryl Hannah
#34. You have to have something bigger than you. You have to have a goal that is greater than you.
Robert Herjavec
#35. What do you feel like you SHOULD be doing instead of writing? IF you have an answer, then you have guilt. The "should" of life are always linked to guilt.
Andi Cumbo-Floyd
#36. 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
#37. Yes I have had a tan, actually. I went to Los Angeles and got one there, but it didn't make it back to Britain. You're not allowed to come through customs with a tan.
Steven Morrissey
#38. Actually men are closer to having the ability to act egoistic when it comes to a crisis situation.
Ruben Ostlund
#39. Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Swami Vivekananda
