Conviction Quotes

Don't follow the path. Go where there is no path and begin the trail. When you start a new trail equipped with courage, strength and conviction, the only thing that can stop you is you!

I wish to show those who deny us Patriotism that we know how to die for our country and convictions.

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

I have come to the conviction that once one embarks on a concept for a building, this concept has to be exaggerated and overstated and repeated in every part of its interior so that wherever you are, inside or outside, the building sings with the same message.

One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

When a denomination begins to consider doctrine divisive, theology troublesome, and convictions inconvenient, consider that denomination on its way to a well-deserved death.

I have a firm conviction that I am immortal until my work is done.

Conviction is not repentance; conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance.

Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can't have it both ways.

There are real solutions right now for us if we stand up with the courage of our convictions.

It is our firm conviction that mankind will live the happier when it has learned to live with music more worthily. Whoever works to promote this end, in one way or another, has not lived in vain.

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

... my convictions led me to adhere to the sufficiency of the light within us, resting on truth as authority, rather than 'taking authority for truth.'

When we lock things away," he said with conviction, "we're really imprisoning ourselves.

Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us.

The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?

That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

Repetition of the same chant, the same incantations, the same affirmations leads to belief, and once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

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

Beware lest we mistake our prejudices for our convictions.

The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience.

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe.