Quotes About Convictions

The past was in them, still disturbing but no longer a governing history; the trauma strengthened the convictions they possessed about how to lead their lives.

we have the satisfaction of knowing that whatever we did, we did at the time in the best of faith. Of course, we took some bold steps and often did things with much single-mindedness; but this is surely preferable to never putting one's convictions to the test, for lack of will or courage.

Mama lui îl implorase s?-È™i p?streze convingerile pentru sine, dar el nu putea: avea È™aptesprezece ani È™i, pentru el, lucrurile erau fie corecte, fie greÈ™ite.

Economic relationships do not operate on value-neutral laws, but are rather carriers of specific convictions about the nature of the human person - the person's origins and destiny. There is an implicit anthropology and an implicit theology in every economics.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

You deal in the raw material of opinion, and, if my convictions have any validity, opinion ultimately governs the world.

Well-defined theological convictions did not admit contrary viewpoints, for even the consideration of alternate possibilities ran contrary to the notion of faith.

I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.

All humans are carrying invisible torchlights directing us to our destinies called our beliefs.

Beliefs are choices. First you choose your beliefs. Then your beliefs affect your choices.

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.

I have convictions, and the courage of my convictions allows me to overcome my fears and act in a courageous manner...

One needs time to free oneself of wrong convictions. If it happens too suddenly, they go on festering.

qualquer pessoa encontra, encarnadas nessa vida, as convicções que lhe são mais importantes lado a lado com aquelas que mais profundamente abomina.

Convincing red-haired her to stay with someone -his son- who has another wife too, it's the father, who can convince anyone of anything: look at them convincing you still philosophy, science, literature- everyone's convictions come from them; in consequence a harping feminism... and this is my old hat. But it's only a few years old their old hat is thousands.

When thinking one cannot avoid beginning with certain convictions, but one must be aware that these convictions can be questioned and need to be defended with argument. One must also be aware that one's attempts to defend these convictions may fail, so that one may have to abandon or revise one's convictions. Thinking in an open-ended way does not mean starting from nowhere, but it does mean being able to arrive wherever thought and argument lead.

I think the only thing that's really going to make a change in terms of how we feel as citizens in terms of safety and our relationship with the police is if we start seeing more federal indictments, arrests, and convictions of police officers.

My political beliefs are my moral, quasi-religious framework.

When it was not very comfortable, politically, for me, I said things which lots of people didn't like, some of them may have liked. I said my beliefs, my truth, and my convictions, and that's how I am going to continue to do in the future.

I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.

It is about the players that take us to success. When they feel your convictions you can sell them your ideas a bit better and take them to important results.

I'm a woman of strong convictions.

New York is a place where people have strong convictions.

If you work with convictions, people have got to listen to you.