Convictions Quotes

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Work, Friendly, Hard

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Dangerous, Lies

Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.
Marilyn Monroe

Friend, Fire, Find

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Tolerance, Virtue

I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Yourself, Keep, Anyone

People of different faiths, like yours and mine, sometimes wonder where we can meet in common purpose, when there are so many differences in creed and theology. Surely the answer is that we can meet in service, in shared moral convictions about our nation stemming from a common worldview.
Mitt Romney

Different, Sometimes, Service

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

Great, Kindness, Nothing

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Hide, Eighteen, Hills

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Men, Courage, Death

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Age, Courage, Blessed

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Suffering, Worth, Bring

Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Love, Sometimes, Stronger

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
John Calvin

Faith, Nothing, Understand

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Strong, Honest, Follow

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

Doubt, Short, Problems

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
Dag Hammarskjold

Peace, Quiet, Deny

When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm.
Edwin Louis Cole

Give, While, Pressure

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
Louisa May Alcott

Great, Strong, Weak

I have the courage of my convictions.
Brigitte Bardot

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

Life, God, Jesus

All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
James Freeman Clarke

Faith, Great, Strength

Oh, I will always be honest with my music. The records are black boxes for me. Like if you want to know who I am, my views, my perspective, things I love, things I hate, my convictions, my anthems. I've never let people's opinions affect the way I write.
Katy Perry

Love, Music, Hate

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
John Updike

Change, Art, Last

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
Dag Hammarskjold

Peace, Experience, Quiet

Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Hard, Destiny, Learned

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

Violence, Union, Shall

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
Stephen Jay Gould

Important, Human, After

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

Human, Nobility, Strictly

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.
John Ciardi

Men, Courage, Sad

The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.
Elia Kazan

Made, Pictures, Direct

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