Conviction Quotes - Page 9

Now, no one expects us to agree on everything, whether in Juneau or in Washington. But we are expected to govern with integrity and goodwill and clear convictions and a servant's heart.

You need conviction in your own beliefs, and the willingness to ignore others naysaying.

If you pivot, do it fully and with conviction. The worst thing is to try to do a bit of the old and the new-it's hard to kill your babies.

Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

The [Israelis] believed - they were possessed of an absolute certainty and conviction - that 'terrorists' were in Chatila. How could I explain to them that the terrorists had left, that the terrorists had worn Israeli uniforms, that the terrorists had been sent into Chatila by Israeli officers, that the victims of the terrorists were not Israelis but Palestinians and Lebanese?

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.

What in me is pure conviction is simple prejudice in you.

I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.

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

I don't consider myself a Hollywood liberal, but I have my convictions and my beliefs.

The strength of Donald Trump as a candidate - and I'm not in any way defending moral convictions or anything of the sort - was that he says what he means, you know where he stands.

To accuse me of being too inflexible is poppycock.

... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.

Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.

When we are convinced of some great truths, and feel our convictions keenly, we must not fear to express it, although others have said it before us. Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.

Hannah writes of love with compassion and conviction.

Certainly within any decadent period, you would probably find the purest expressions of conviction, and I do not see that in many of the people I know.

I have been gradually coming under the conviction, disturbing for a professional theorist, that there is no such thing as economics - there is only social science applied to economic problems.

My political views have definitely changed over the years. Maybe a better way of saying it is that I have grown into my convictions; the values and ideas of radical feminism that I started to articulate in my late teens feel more internalized or "second nature."

Frenchwomen could not dress like Englishwomen without conviction of sin.

She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themselves… They belonged to her her and were her own, and she entertained the conviction that she had a right to them and they they concerned no one but herself.

I'd say that individuals are respected who stick to their convictions instead of doing whatever happens to be in fashion.

There’s no basis or anything. I just have this conviction that appeared inside of me which I have to follow.

If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions.