Quotes of: Convictions Keyword

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

Ambrose Bierce

Conservatives don't need to change core convictions to embrace the growing support for equal rights for gay Americans.

Ken Mehlman

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

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Vaclav Havel

As entrepreneurs, we must constantly dream and have the conviction and obsession to transform our dreams into reality - to create a future that never existed before.

Clara Shih

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

Bryant H. McGill

People who see no gray tend to convince others to follow them. If someone talks with great conviction and joy, people tend to agree with them.

Julie White

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Louisa May Alcott

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.

Owen Arthur

Federal law prohibits anyone convicted of a felony from owning a gun. Seems like kind of a good idea, no?

Timothy Noah

For me, no ideological or political conviction would justify the sacrifice of a human life. For me, the value of life is absolute, with no concessions. It's not negotiable.

Edgar Ramirez

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Just because you're convicted in a court room doesn't mean you're guilty of something.

Charles Manson

The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable.

Charles Trevelyan

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

Daniel Webster

You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.

Denis Waitley

Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.

Elisabeth Elliot

Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.

George Jackson

I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe