Conviction Quotes - Page 8

In our timidity and our shoddy opportunism we are always stirred when a man appears on the horizon willing to stake his all on a conviction.

To discover depravity in those whom we have loved, is one of the most exquisite tortures to a virtuous mind, and the conviction is often rejected before it is finally admitted.

With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least ten per cent of your net worth in that stock

I should have the courage of my lack of convictions.

I've always had this deep-down conviction that I'm not like everybody else, and there's an amazingly exciting new life waiting for me just around the corner.

Beware of making a fetish of consistency to your convictions instead of being devoted to God.

Conviction is the conscience of intellect.

It is my deepest conviction that the children should be seen and heard as our most treasured assets.

Neither the intensity of your feelings nor the certainty of your convictions is any assurance that you are right.

Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, and by the immobility of our conceptions of them.

Any preacher who preaches beyond that which he has experienced is incapable of preaching with conviction.

How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic?

But then books, as I'm sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action. Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already. You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated. A book, as it were, closes the book.

My aesthetic is probably closer to a 15-year-old's than my dad's, but I get his conviction.

Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing I had to do in life.

Political activists of all stripes are usually a wacky bunch, and never more so than in a system like Britain's, where power is effected via the quiescence of the electorate as much as its convictions.

Our conviction that we are free to choose what we make of a photograph hides the complicity to which we are recruited in the very act of looking.

I do not seek unpopularity as a badge of honour, but sometimes it is the price of leadership and the cost of conviction.

I don't think my religious convictions should be held against me.

I have always held the conviction that American citizens should keep as much of their hard-earned money as possible.

My dad always, he helped me by not helping me. He always said, being a producer, it was all about conviction.

The most human thing about anyone is a thing he learns and ... and earns. It's a thing he can't have when he's very young; if he gets it at all, he gets it after a long search and a deep conviction. After that it's truly part of him as long as he lives.

There is a strength of conviction that can only come from being 100% wrong.

Faith creates the foundation for conviction.

A conviction is in the nature of a verdict and judgment, and therefore it must be precise and certain.