Conviction Quotes

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.
Donald Trump

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.
John Dewey

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

If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Archimedes

You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.
Robert Plant

In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.
Tupac Shakur

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.
Tupac Shakur

I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
Fidel Castro

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
B. F. Skinner

Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
Jimi Hendrix

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
Thomas Hardy

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
Thomas Hardy

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.
James Allen

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

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

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.
David Ogilvy

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.
Frank Zappa

I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.

My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.

I'm not afraid to look like an idiot.
Anthony Bourdain

I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
Og Mandino

We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
Pericles

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.
Jessica Alba

I used to be indecisive but now I am not quite sure.
Tommy Cooper

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.
Woody Guthrie

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
Babe Ruth

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
Umberto Eco

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
Thucydides

Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.
Andrew Johnson

Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting.
River Phoenix

A man convinced against his will is not convinced.

So we are pretty convinced we don't want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well.
Jerry Garcia

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.
Michael Caine