Conviction Quotes

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.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

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

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.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

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.

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.

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.

Shortly after the end of last season, I felt that I probably would not return for the 1999-2000 season. I also felt that I should take as much time as possible to sort through my feelings and make sure that my feelings were backed with conviction.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.

Moreover, broad plans commensurate with our national purpose and resources would bring conviction of our power to every soldier in the front line, to the nations associated with us in the war, and to the enemy.

Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.

One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.

The Martha Stewart trial makes clear how far women have risen in the business world. America can be proud of our equal-opportunity prosecution and conviction.

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.

The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.

I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.