Quotes on Conviction

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

Author: Samuel Butler

I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.

Author: Michael Caine

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Author: Thomas Carlyle

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

Author: Thomas Carlyle

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

Author: Lord Chesterfield

If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.

Author: Alex Chilton

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Author: Powell Clayton

An indictment is not a conviction.

Author: Howard Coble

Constant repetition carries conviction.

Author: Robert Collier

Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I rise in behalf of the State of New York to propose a nomination with which the country and the Republican party can grandly win.

Author: Roscoe Conkling

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.

Author: Charles Cooley

We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must.

Author: Jim Cramer

The Petersons have not come forward in the press. Apparently they feel the media bears a large responsibility for Scott's conviction. It may be a while before we hear anything from them.

Author: Catherine Crier

Our consciences are littered like an old attic with the junk of sheer conviction.

Author: Wilford Cross

Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.

Author: Andrea Dworkin

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

Author: George Eliot

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

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

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.

Author: John Gardner

I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state.

Author: Jim Garrison

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.

Author: Carl Gauss

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Author: Samuel Johnson

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

Author: Claude Levi-Strauss

Do not confuse weak reservations with strong convictions.

Author: Thomas Jefferson

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

Author: Georg Lichtenberg

There's Eddie's conviction and his lyrics and his ideals, and he can just rock straight out. His vocals are incredible. And we all are really competent musicians.

Author: Mike McCready

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

Author: Gertrude Stein

Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.

Author: Dylan Thomas

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

Author: Charles Trevelyan

There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.

Author: Atal Vajpayee

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

Author: Denis Waitley

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

Author: Daniel Webster

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

Author: William Yeats

True freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want, but the courage to stand up for what you believe in.

Author: Angela Davis