Conviction Quotes - Page 5

the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.

Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions; and thereby miss the wine of life, forgoing the very thing that makes living worthwhile.

We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others.

My sad conviction is that people can only agree about what they're not really interested in.

My comprehension of God comes from a deeply felt conviction of a superior intelligence that reveals itself in the knowable world.

Convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking.

Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction.

I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream.

I think it's the person's conviction that really carries a person.

I write from a thorough conviction that it is the duty of me, and with the belief that, after every drawback and shortcoming, I do my best, all things considered--that is for me, and, so being, the not being listened to by one human creature would, I hope, in nowise affect me.

We live our thoughts and manifest them in our attitudes toward ourselves and others. We cannot live beyond our thoughts and convictions.

And when we are tolerant, we must know whether it is because of convenience or conviction.

And everyone who wills can hear the Voice. It is within every one. But like everything else it requires previous and definite preparation.

Joy begins with our convictions about spiritual truths we're willing to bet our lives on, and truths that are lodged so deeply within us that they produce a settled assurance about God.

Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time!

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

If you have political convictions... keep 'em to yourself

She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.

An indictment is not a 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 deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

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