Quotes About Convictions

I am 100 percent pro-life and have been my whole life. That means I am opposed to abortion at any stage of pregnancy, and I am opposed to embryonic stem-cell research.

I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions.

It's not that I am a difficult person; it's just that I have certain strong likes and dislikes.

Donald Trump is a demagogue. Period. The fervor of his crowds recalls Nasser's Egypt. His convictions are illiberal. His manners are disgusting. His temper is frightening.

Christianity is not a set of private convictions that we cultivate inwardly or whisper among ourselves. It is the message that the whole world needs to hear. We who have heard it must become agents of subversion and transformation.

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.

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

Wise people "have the courage to act on their beliefs and convictions at the same time that they have the humility to realize that they might be wrong, and must be prepared to change their beliefs and actions when better information comes along.

As I wrote on the Harvard Business Review website in 2010, that's what wisdom means to organizational psychologist (and my intellectual hero) Karl Weick. Wise people "have the courage to act on their beliefs and convictions at the same time that they have the humility to realize that they might be wrong, and must be prepared to change their beliefs and actions when better information comes along.

Virtue is a subordination of the passions to the intellect. It is to act in accordance with your highest convictions. It does not consist in believing but in doing. Collected works volume 1

Da una parte c'è la pressione delle convinzioni nostre e della società, condizionate come sono, dalla necessità e dai tempi in cui viviamo. Dall'altra, c'è l'esortazione del cuore che ci dice: Resta sempre fedele a te stesso. Sopra ogni altra cosa.

your daily behavior is always a function of your deepest beliefs

It is important to remember that just as our words are our thoughts verbalized, so our deeds are our beliefs actualized.

He was a man of strong convictions. Some of them were offensive and all of them were erroneous.

In the field of morality, the Nazi's primary obligation is to renounce, to renounce his self, in the full, literal sense of the term: his values, in the name of society; his judgment, in the name of authority; his convictions, in the name of flexibility.

Hope that justice will be done to those brave men who stood up for their convictions.

Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.

We need people who influence their peers and who cannot be detoured from their convictions by peers who do not have the courage to have any convictions.

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Hope that justice will be done to those brave men who stood up for their convictions.

So the journey is over and I am back again where I started, richer by much experience and poorer by many exploded convictions, many perished certainties. For convictions and certainties are too often the concomitants of ignorance. Those who like to feel that they are always right and who attach a high importance to their own opinions should stay at home. When one is traveling, convictions are mislaid as easily as spectacles; but unlike spectacles, they are not easily replaced.

Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.

What shapes us and gives our lives meaning are not the things that happen to us, but their significance. Life lessons, revelations, changes, and growing convictions are what we think of when we ponder who we are. As