Conviction Quotes - Page 10

Love is an indescribable sensation - perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude.

I have never said that human society ought to be aristocratic, but a great deal more than that. What I have said, and still believe with ever-increasing conviction, is that human society is always, whether it will or no, aristocratic by its very essence, to the extreme that it is a society in the measure that it is aristocratic, and ceases to be such when it ceases to be aristocratic. Of course I am speaking now of society and not of the State.

But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.

Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father.

There should be just no end to what we can do when we operate with the courage of our convictions and we get out there in the street, in the voting booth, we assert our power and we take our democracy back.

Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.

Assertion of truths known and felt, promulgation of truth from the high platform of truth itself, declaration of faith by the mouth of moral conviction--this is the New Testament method, and the true one.

and he would probably not agree with my conviction that a sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. But who can say for sure? Humor is a very private thing.

Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.

Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.

There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.

It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him

No one nowadays talks about the absolute, not even people with firm and deep religious convictions. The whole Hegelian project has no resonance for us, as it once had for the Germans in the 1820s and the British and Americans around the 1880s.

No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites.

Who has no own conviction dissipates himself in the imitation of others.

When it comes to business, I am a woman, and when it comes to relationships, I am a child. I just haven't figured out how to bring the same confidence and conviction I have in the boardroom to my romantic relationships.

The most good you can do for yourself spiritually is to live your life with total love, conviction, and purpose.

For some time now she has had the conviction that life is about to change if only because it must. . . .

Blasphemy and prayer are one. Both assert the existence of a superior power. The first, however, with conviction.

Speak out tirelessly with conviction.

There needs to be conviction and action behind rules.

Critics should stick to their convictions.

It is not enough to have the courage of your convictions, you must also have the courage to have your convictions challenged.

I have served a sufficiently long sentence. I am not asking for a pardon of my conviction.