Conviction Quotes
Conviction Quotes
Convictions in our ideas is dangerous not only because it leaves us vulnerable to false positives, but also because it stops us from generating the requisite variety to reach our creative potential.
Adam Grant
Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.
Ambrose Bierce
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Blaise Pasc
When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything – that is the definition of conviction.
Criss Jami
A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.
Curt Siodmak
We led with our conviction rather than rational, because rational said it was impossible.
Daniel Ek
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
Daniel Webster
It takes but one person, one moment, one conviction, to start a ripple of change.
Donna Brazile
Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
Flannery O'Connor
Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.
Francis C. Kelley
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity’s approval.
Gerald R. Ford
Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman’s face.
Honoré de Balzac
Yet none of these things gave him confidence. All they gave him was egotism, which is less the conviction of one’s worth than the desire for that conviction.
Jetta Carleton
The word “conviction” means to expose.
Johnny Hunt
Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
The secret of success is conviction and persistence.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.
Max Weber
If you stay true to your principles, you have confidence, conviction, purpose, values – in other words, you have a future.
Mike Klepper
It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
Muhammad Ali
Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
Nicolas Chamfort
With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.
Pat Benatar
Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.
Powell Clayton
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
Ralph Nader
Constant repetition carries conviction.
Robert Collier
Ninety percent of selling is conviction, and 10 per cent is persuasion.
Shiv Khera
Never let your goals or convictions get in the way of living your life. It’s not about who dies with more, it’s about who lived the most.
Teresa R. Funke
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
Thomas Carlyle
Conviction affects all substances in the vicinity.
Toba Beta
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
Vladimir Lenin
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
William Butler Yeats