Quotes About Convictions

On cherche dans un livre la confirmation de ses propres convictions.

About some things—about many things!—we believe that people should have not open minds but settled convictions. We cannot make progress intellectually or socially until some issues are no longer up for grabs.

Contrary to all my own opinions and convictions, Jesus Christ will tell me what love toward the brethren really is.

I am not a Christian because God changed my life; I am a Christian because of my convictions about who Jesus Christ is.

Beauty is not just physical. It's about what you stand for, how you live your life.

We forget that the accumulation of knowledge and the holding of convictions must finally result in the application of that knowledge and those convictions to life itself.

I've been around in public life for a long time. I think people know what I stand for. They know that I have strong convictions, committed principles and I'm prepared to stand up for them.

The Day We Let Our Convictions Define Our Life Rather Than Our Insecurities, Our True Journey Begins.

The big lock-up is about drugs. Here's the real scam. The drug war is one of the games to get more convictions and prisoners.

A man cannot be convinced against his own convictions, but he can be talked into a state of uncertainty and indecision, which is even worse, for that means that he cannot trade with confidence and comfort.

New means must be discovered to find room for us under the sun. Shall this be done by war or can it be done by peaceful methods? Or will we all have to move to Canada? Our deepest convictions—will Science upset them? Our civilization—is it inferior to older orders of things?

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. Never yield to force: never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

It's never appropriate for a judge to impose that judge's personal convictions - whether they derive from faith or anywhere else - on the law.

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

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

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

I don't compromise my principles for politics.

I don't believe you outsource your convictions and principles to people.

Whatever my faults, I have some principles.

I get along with people. But I don't sacrifice my principles either.

I live my life not to please my pastor or my church or fellow Christians. I live my life according to my own convictions and morals and core values and principles, and a lot of times, that's not going to add up to other Christians.

Compromise for compromise sake is never good, unless it is grounded in principles.

I am very loyal to my principles.

My work is a self-portrait of my mind, a prism of my convictions.