Conviction Quotes

It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.

Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account.

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

An indictment is not a conviction.

I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

And I like the way Cain writes his women. Very strong. They're kind of lusty, they know what they want, they're full of conviction. Cain's women are sexual.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

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.