Conviction Quotes - Page 31

• We are not called on to believe this or that doctrine which may be proposed to us till we can do so from honest conviction. But we are called on to trust--to trust ourselves to God, being sure that He will lead us right--to keep close to Him--and to trust the promises which He whispers through our conscience; this we can do, and we ought to do.

  John Campbell Shairp

  Believe, Promise, Doctrine

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• There's a cultural conviction that any 'artist' must have personal suffering to back up their work, otherwise there's something undeserved and therefore inauthentic about it, perhaps even some sort of cheating.

  Jenny Diski

  Cheating, Artist, Suffering

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• Assertion of truths known and felt, promulgation of truth from the high platform of truth itself, declaration of faith by the mouth of moral conviction--this is the New Testament method, and the true one.

  J. G. Holland

  Mouths, Moral, Platforms

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 290, 1895.

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• Too many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions.

  Maurice Allais

  Facts, Tendencies, Theorists

  "L'anisotropie de l'espace. La nécessaire révision de certains postulats des théories contemporaines. Les données de l'expérience" by Maurice Allais, Clément Juglar, Paris, (p. 640), 1997.

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• What children need is the conviction that satisfaction can and must be earned. ... Spoiled children do not learn the must.

  Isabel Briggs Myers

  Children, Needs, Satisfaction

  Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers (1995). “Gifts differing: understanding personality type”, Davies-Black Publishing

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• Confidence is something you acquire in yourself by believing in self ability with courage and conviction.

  Anil Sinha

  Confidence, Believe, Self

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• In the matter of faith, we have the added weight of hope to that of reason in the convictions which we sustain relating to a future state.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Weight, Matter, Reason

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• A child with an intense capacity for feeling can suffer to a degree that is beyond any degree of adult suffering, because imagination, ignorance, and the conviction of utter helplessness are untempered either by reason or by experience.

  E. M. Delafield

  Children, Ignorance, Imagination

  E. M. Delafield (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated)”, p.1488, Delphi Classics

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• You don't choose your themes; they choose you. The meaning of your stories will rise out of your deepest longings, often out of longings so deep that you haven't admitted them even to yourself. Your convictions, your confusions, your most passionate dreams will be there whenever you begin a story, so you might as well learn to tap into them.

  Marion Dane Bauer

  Dream, Confusion, Stories

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• A whole lot of us go through life assuming that we are basically right, basically all the time, about basically everything: about our political and intellectual convictions, our religious and moral beliefs, our assessments of other people, our memories, our grasp of facts. As absurd as it sounds when we stop to think about it, our steady state seems to be one of unconsciously assuming that we are very close to omniscient.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Religious, Memories, Thinking

  "Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error". Book by Kathryn Schultz, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2011.

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• Without wishing in the slightest degree to disparage the skill and labour of breadmakers by trade, truth compels us to assert our conviction of the superior wholesomeness of bread made in our own homes.

  Eliza Acton

  Food, Home, Skills

  Eliza Acton (1868). “Modern Cookery, for Private Families: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, in a Series of Carefully Tested Receipts, in which the Principles of Baron Liebig and Other Eminent Writers Have Been as Much as Possible Applied and Explained”, p.594

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• you cannot make a person believe anything unless that person has already had a conscious or unconscious vision of the same thing; you have no conviction of truth unless you have already apprehended it intuitively.

  Gwethalyn Graham

  Believe, Vision, Belief

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• Any fool can make a quilt; and, after we had made a couple of dozen over twenty years ago, we quit the business with a conviction that nobody but a fool would spend so much time in cutting bits of dry goods into yet small bits and sewing them together again, just for the sake of making believe that they were busy at practical work.

  Abigail Scott Duniway

  Quilts, Couple, Believe

  Abigail Scott Duniway (2000). “"Yours for Liberty": Selections from Abigail Scott Duniway's Suffrage Newspaper”

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• Unpaid work never commands respect; it is the paid worker who has brought to the public mind conviction of woman's worth.

  Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch

  Mind, Command, Workers

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• The Atlantic really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.

  Nic Pizzolatto

  Writing, Careers

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• When you appoint someone, you appoint somebody because of their character, their convictions, their abilities. And not because you have a belief, a confidence, in a foreordained outcome in any given decision.

  Karl Rove

  Character, Decision, Outcomes

  "Karl Rove Suggests Stephen Colbert May Need 'Anger Management'". Interview with Kaye Foley, news.yahoo.com. March 24, 2013.

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• To discover depravity in those whom we have loved, is one of the most exquisite tortures to a virtuous mind, and the conviction is often rejected before it is finally admitted.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Disappointment, Mind, Depravity

  Ann Radcliffe (1820). “The romance of the forest, by the authoress of 'A Sicilian romance'.”, p.147

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• Always, our eyes look backwards with the conviction that then, and not now, was the golden age.

  Esther Meynell

  Eye, Past, Age

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• The man has a curious inborn conviction of his own superiority which is quite unshakeable. All his life he has bullied and browbeaten those around him by his high-and-mightiness and his atrocious temper. As a boy he terrorized his entire family by his tantrums, when, if thwarted, he would throw himself on the floor and yell till he went blue in the face. It has been much the same ever since. Everyone's terrified of his rages. He has only to start grinding his teeth, and people fall flat before him.

  Anna Kavan

  Fall, Boys, Men

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• Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount.

  Wes Moore

  Fighting, Important, Finding Peace

  Wes Moore (2010). “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates”, p.168, Spiegel & Grau

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• Don't let anyone tell you no. Do it with conviction, do it with passion, and you'll find a way

  Amanda Tapping

  Passion, Way

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• Sexiness is about being an individual and having conviction about what that is.

  Christina Hendricks

  Individual, Sexiness

  "Christina Hendricks surprised by sexiness". Cosmopolitan Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. February 2, 2012.

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• I still remember the five points of salesmanship: attention, interest, conviction, desire and close.

  Annette Bening

  Desire, Attention, Remember

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Repentance, however difficult to be practiced, is, if it be explained without superstition, easily understood. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God.

  Samuel Johnson

  Practice, Superstitions, Repentance

  Samuel Johnson (1851). “The beauties of Johnson: choice selections from his works”, p.143

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• Of all the agonies in life, that which is most poignant and harrowing--that which for the time annihilates reason, and leaves our whole organization one lacerated, mangled heart--is the conviction that we have been deceived where we placed all the trust of love.

  Bill Vaughan

  Heart, Agony, Organization

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