Conviction Quotes

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved. (Victor Hugo)
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. View quote
Victor Hugo
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Conviction is the conscience of the mind. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting. View quote
Gertrude Stein
For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
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)
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. View quote
James Russell Lowell
What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart. View quote
Learned Hand
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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. View quote
Charles Cooley
Conviction without experience makes for harshness. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not. View quote
Germaine Greer
My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy. View quote
George Eliot
I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions. View quote
Friedrich Hayek
Words should be employed as the means, not as the end: language is the instrument, conviction is the work. (Joshua Reynolds)
Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance. View quote
Daniel Kahneman
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. View quote
Walter Lippmann
The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately. View quote
Bertrand Russell
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. View quote
Franklin Pierce Adams