Quotes About Convictions

Crimes spring from fixed ideas.

It is extremely difficult to stand up for principles when many of your friends are automatically liberal or just do not care.

I have high standards I hold myself to, besides Christianity.

Christians are increasingly being punished for the free exercise of their faith and for standing on God's Word and holding to biblical convictions about sin. This is especially apparent with the gay lobby.

There are things I cannot do, costumes I cannot wear. When I have taken stands on things, it is because I have thought carefully about them.

I don't have courage in my convictions and I'm not interested in serious things or politics: if you're doing an hour of standup, you should talk about a few serious things.

It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet

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

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.

Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe.

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles.

He had told me before, but that night in the truck it hit home: Steve lived for wildlife and he would die for wildlife. He came by his convictions sincerely, from the bottom of his heart. He was more than just my husband that night. He was my hero.

For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.

I did not then believe, and I do not now believe, that any man should ever attempt to make politics his only career. It is a dreadful misfortune for a man to grow to feel that his whole livelihood and whole happiness depend upon his staying in office. Such a feeling prevents him from being of real service to the people while in office, and always puts him under the heaviest strain of pressure to barter his convictions for the sake of holding office.

I am conservative, there's no doubt about it. But you can be conservative and still work with people, and that's what my intentions are.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.

one element in the social revolution will be "that intelligent and truly noble part of the youth which, though belonging by birth to the privileged classes, in its generous convictions and ardent aspirations, adopts the cause of the people.

However, when a patient stands on the firm ground of religious belief, there can be no objection to making use of the therapeutic effect of his religious convictions and thereby drawing upon his spiritual resources.

I had intended to write this book anonymously, using my prison number only. But when the manuscript was completed, I saw that as an anonymous publication it would lose half its value, and that I must have the courage to state my convictions openly. I therefore refrained from deleting any of the passages, in spite of an intense dislike of exhibitionism.

Things were not so simple after all. She could not understand even her own feelings. She saw the most cherished of her convictions put into practice - and her eyes filled with tears. She had won fame and independence and the right to live her own life - and she wanted something different.