Conviction Quotes

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
Albert Einstein

God, Power, Emotional

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Mahatma Gandhi

Trouble, Worse, Avoid

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Albert Einstein

War, Nothing, Act

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
Muhammad Ali

Deep, Happen, Once

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo

Life, Happiness, Greatest

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism, Country, Others

And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better.
Mitt Romney

Morning, America, Proud

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It 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

Hope, Same, Sense

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Blaise Pascal

Men, Evil, Religious

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

Life, Hope, Belief

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
William Butler Yeats

Best, While, Worst

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo

Life, Happiness, Rather

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
Robert E. Lee

Best, Saying, Real

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
Flannery O'Connor

Experience, Makes

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
Thomas Carlyle

Unless, Conduct, Worthless

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
Benjamin Disraeli

Long, Nothing, Human

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.
Conan O'Brien

Beauty, True, Through

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.
Bertrand Russell

Emotional, Himself, Belief

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
B. R. Ambedkar

Successful, Justice, Political

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
Thomas Carlyle

Until, Excellent, Conduct

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
Orison Swett Marden

Great, Courage, Confidence

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

Game, Enjoy, Chance

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.
John W. Gardner

Education, School, Goal

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

Ready, Stick, Abandon

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butler

Nothing, Serious, Seriously

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.
John W. Gardner

Simple, Political, Two

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'
Florence Scovel Shinn

Success, Failure, Done

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
Vladimir Lenin

Politics, Spiritual, Seriously

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
George Eliot

Social, Production, Literary

A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!
Billy Sunday

Women, Men, Today

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