Conviction Quotes

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Venezuelans have a deep democratic conviction. If the government hotheads ventured out to stir violence they would encounter the armed forces. I don't believe the armed forces respond to a political party.

And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better.

With his trademark courage and conviction, President Reagan led us out of the Cold War, spreading his vision of freedom, resulting in the release of millions of people from the yoke of communism.

There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.

It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught the very soul of the character she wishes to portray, in the music and action which reveal it.

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must.

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them.

With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose.

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in order to secure this hard-won freedom for future generations.

The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.

Constant repetition carries conviction.

I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace.

My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you.