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Quotes About Convictions

Being so easily convinced, so quickly with information that is so scripted and so empty, may be one of the reasons why conversions, connections and growth have been so hard and so slow.
~ Loren Weisman
Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.
~ Peter Ustinov
Follow your honest convictions, and stay strong.
~ William Thackeray
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.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
I vecchi si aggrappano al potere e alle loro convinzioni, che ammettono tutti i loro vizi peggiori ma escludono il minimo errore e soffocano la minima innovazione dei giovani. Poi, grazie a Dio, muoiono e non possono fare più danni. Ma ormai noi, i giovani, siamo diventati vecchi, e ci sforziamo di quel po' di male che loro hanno lasciato incompiuto.
~ Vikram Seth
In so many church situations, nobody thinks they have problems. They simply have convictions and they're trying to get everyone else to live up to them.
~ Vinita Hampton Wright
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Invest in yourself. Invest in self-discipline. Invest in self-satisfaction. Have complete control over your own thoughts and convictions, and never stop aiming to outdo yourself.
~ Lionel Suggs
There are real solutions right now for us if we stand up with the courage of our convictions.
~ Jill Stein
A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say "No," though all the world say "Yes.
~ Orison Swett Marden
The people who are opposing the policy of apartheid have not the courage of their convictions. They do not marry non-Europeans.
~ P. W. Botha
In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.
~ Gerald R. Ford
When you flip anything, you really you just have to have the courage of your convictions.
~ Julia Child
My parents were always clear with my brothers and I when we were growing up that you have to have the courage of your convictions and that when you commit to something you must fully commit.
~ David Pocock
We don't do ambivalence well in America. We do courage of our convictions. We do might makes right. Ambivalence is French. Certainty is American.
~ Anna Quindlen
Have the courage of your convictions once you have made a decision.
~ Walter Schloss
Make sure you have the courage to stay true to your convictions and not let the market affect your emotions.
~ Walter Schloss
Courage results when one's convictions are bigger than one's fears.
~ Orrin Woodward
Too few have the courage of my convictions.
~ Robert M. Hutchins
It is not enough to have the courage of your convictions, you must also have the courage to have your convictions challenged.
~ Christopher Phillips
If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions.
~ Julia Child
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
I am ready to defend my convictions even unto death. I have followed the Sacred Scriptures and the holy doctors.
~ John Wycliffe