Conviction Quotes

• I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Faith, Attitude

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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• Having convictions can be defined as being so thoroughly convinced that Christ and His Word are both objectively true and relationally meaningful that you act on your beliefs regardless of the consequences.

  Josh McDowell

  Meaningful, Belief, Christ

  Josh McDowell (2003). “Belief Matters Leader's Guide”, Tyndale House Pub

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• Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.

  Francis Kelley

  Men, Addiction, Belief

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

  William Butler Yeats

  Passionate, Doubt And Certainty, Anarchy

  "The Second Coming" l. 1 (1921)

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

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Life, Happiness

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

  Louisa May Alcott

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

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• With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.

  Pat Benatar

  Leadership, Sacrifice, Grace

  Song: Invincible, 1985

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• When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Giving, Literature, Way

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• Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Leadership, Being Happy, Honesty

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• The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

  Walter Lippmann

  Inspirational, Change, Success

  New York Herald Tribune 14 Apr. 1945

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Faith

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• The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

  James Russell Lowell

  Faith, Color, Weather

  Carl Schurz, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Speech A”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I am not a Christian because God changed my life; I am a Christian because of my convictions about who Jesus Christ is.

  Josh McDowell

  Christian, Jesus, God Life

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

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Sad, Religious

  Pensees no. 894 (1670 ed.)

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• The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.112, Wordsworth Editions

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

  Muhammad Ali

  Life, Motivational, Believe

  Twitter post from Feb 13, 2010

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• Survival is not possible if the best of us lack all conviction, while the worst of us are full of passionate intensity.

  John Silber

  Carpe Diem, Survival, Passionate

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• 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, Recovery, Carpe Diem

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• Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

  David Seabury

  Courage, Powerful, Animal

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• Constant repetition carries conviction.

  Robert Collier

  Positive, Mma, Affirmation

  Robert Collier (2010). “The Life Magnet”, p.265, Penguin

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• Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Equality, Democracy, Unshakable

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• Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Character, People, Liberty

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• 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

  Men, Emotional, Favour

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.31, Bertrand Russell

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• The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Inspirational, Country, Believe

  Nods and Becks (1944) p. 74

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• If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion.

  Mia Hamm

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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