Conviction Quotes - Page 5

• Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Inspiring, Graduation

  Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941

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• 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

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Determination

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Doubt, Literature, Praying

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• The trite saying that 'honesty is the best policy' has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The seems to be true. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

  Robert E. Lee

  Honesty, Real, Men

  "Memoirs of Robert E. Lee". Book by A. L. Long, 1886.

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• The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

  Jean Rostand

  Independent, Belief, Nobility

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Life Is, Fame, Boundaries

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• People will judge you according to your own convictions.

  Dexter Scott King

  People, Judging

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• Be strong and follow your own convictions. You can't assume there is a lot of time to do what you like. This is what David Bowie is afraid of: that he will die before he gets a chance to make a real strong contribution.

  Marc Bolan

  Strong, Real, Chance

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• Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan.

  Stockwell Day

  Religious, Sex, Government

  Government Orders: Civil Marriage Act, www.ourcommons.ca. May 3, 2005.

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• Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

  Winston Churchill

  Graduation, Being Strong, Perseverance

  Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941

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• Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Mean, Language, Ends

  Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone (1809). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.94

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• Courage and conviction are powerful weapons.

  David Seabury

  Powerful, Fists, Weapons

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• The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration. I am rather tired of hearing about our rights and privileges as Americans. The time is come - it is now - when we ought to hear about the duties and responsibilities of our citizenship. America's future depends upon her accepting and demonstrating God's government.

  Peter Marshall

  God, Jesus, Tired

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Belief, Excellent, Worthless

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• The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.

  Viktor Yushchenko

  Rehabilitation, Pages, Embedded

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• Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Sweet, Accomplishment, Lips

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• If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.

  William Barclay

  Jesus, Stars, Fighting

  William Barclay (1964). “The Gospel of John”

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• A testimony is a conviction, a quiet inward certainty of the reality of the living God, of the divinity of His Beloved Son, of the restoration of Their work in this time. It demands that we do what He has asked us to do.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Son, Reality, Demand

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• You cannot preach conviction of sin unless you have suffered it. You cannot preach repentance unless you have practiced it. You cannot preach faith unless you have exercised it. True preaching is artesian; it wells up from the great depths of the soul. If Christ has not made a well within us, there will be no outflow from us.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Soul, Depth, Sin

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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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• 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

  Kindness, Mistake, Views

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Wisdom, Country

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• Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.

  Thomas Szasz

  Psychosis, Doubt, Neurosis

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1973). “The second sin”, Anchor

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• We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

  Lech Walesa

  Yield, People, Unions

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• In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Believe, Second Chance

  Autobiography ch. 78 (1959)

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