Convictions Quotes

I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

In this kind of situation, we tend to cling to his convictions, we believe that, by magic, we are going to recover. Then we agree to drive less good cars and we are fatally more exposed. It is what finally happened to me with Ensign.

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.

I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God.

The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

I have the courage of my convictions.

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions of life in many cases.

People will judge you according to your own convictions.

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.

I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth.

I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions.

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.

When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.

I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.

Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.

People of different faiths, like yours and mine, sometimes wonder where we can meet in common purpose, when there are so many differences in creed and theology. Surely the answer is that we can meet in service, in shared moral convictions about our nation stemming from a common worldview.