We’ve collected the best Convictions Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Wendy Long, Marne Levine, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Paula Pell, Claudio Hummes. Use them as an inspiration.
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People like authenticity and I think I have the courage of my convictions and am authentic.
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While mainstream media is led by profit, ratings and popularist culture and filtered by the current political climate, Alternative Media is lead solely by the convictions of the campaign and film maker.
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People should be respected for the strength of their convictions, and I also believe in freedom of expression.
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My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada.
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We ought to have the courage of our convictions and confidence in our own ingenuity. After all, that’s what America is all about. Either that, or learn Mandarin.
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There is a class of persons whose souls are essentially non-conductors to the electricity of sentiment, and whose minds seem to be filled with their own train of thinking, convictions, and purposes to the exclusion of everything else.
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Confronting and undermining the narratives and ideas of extremism must therefore be one of our key tasks. To do this, we must retain the courage of our convictions in the face of extremism.
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For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.
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Conservative supporters might either have the courage of their convictions or, if truly ashamed, revise them, but they should at least refute the proposition that defending your own interests is only acceptable if you’re broke.
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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.
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I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not suspicious, where aging is not a problem.
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The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.
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The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.
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If I were able to write, I probably would. But movies have given me a part of my life where I can express feelings and bring convictions to an audience as if I could write. So I made ‘Gandhi‘ about human relations, prejudice and the empire. In ‘Cry Freedom’ I expressed my horror and disgust about apartheid.
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If you work with convictions, people have got to listen to you.
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My responsibility is to speak out on my own convictions.
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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.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.
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This is a day of little faith – of few convictions – a day when men seem to have no great causes and no great passions. So in frustration, in disappointment, they are inclined to say, ‘You can’t change human nature.’ It is true that we cannot change human nature. But God can.
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I would never impose my own personal convictions upon the law.
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It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone’s moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.
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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.
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I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up every day armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.
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We all like to hear a man speak out on his convictions and principles. But at the same time, you must understand that when you’re running on a ticket, you’re running with a team.
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Our political differences, no matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.
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As a natural historian, I don’t believe in the consciousness of rocks or the opinions of rainbows or the convictions of slugs.
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The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions.
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I am a person with clear convictions.
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My feeling about him is that the America that we have today, the freedoms we enjoy and the privileges we have, are really the reflection of Abe Lincoln‘s convictions, his vision, and his toughness.
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If I were able to write, I probably would. But movies have given me a part of my life where I can express feelings and bring convictions to an audience as if I could write. So I made ‘Gandhi‘ about human relations, prejudice and the empire. In ‘Cry Freedom’ I expressed my horror and disgust about apartheid.
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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.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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My parents‘ convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape of ’90s grunge – if you got it now, you would think it was the ‘Singles‘ soundtrack.
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Strong convictions precede great actions.
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The Constitution provides that all Americans enjoy the right to live a life in accordance with their convictions of faith.
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My parents‘ convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape of ’90s grunge – if you got it now, you would think it was the ‘Singles‘ soundtrack.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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I don’t believe you outsource your convictions and principles to people.
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All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
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All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
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Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things – of our convictions and priorities, our faith and our faithfulness, our patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires.
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I went through a political shift when I was nineteen or twenty. I felt a certain way, and after the shift, I felt the opposite way. And never once did someone yelling at me or making me feel stupid do anything other than reinforce the convictions I had. What did get to me was people listening to me.
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I feel like my convictions and my passions come from my very personal experience and the life that I’ve led. I feel the very naturally tendency to stand up for and use my voice for the things that I know about and the things that I feel passionate about.
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Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.
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Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
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Conservatives don’t need to change core convictions to embrace the growing support for equal rights for gay Americans.
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Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
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I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up every day armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.
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Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
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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.
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It’s an unfortunate fact that in the male black population, a very significant percentage of them, more so than whites or other minority candidates, because of convictions, prison records, are never going to be hired by a police department. That’s a reality. That’s not a byproduct of stop-and-frisk.
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No doubt one can, in light of further study and life experience, come to repudiate past convictions.
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There is a class of persons whose souls are essentially non-conductors to the electricity of sentiment, and whose minds seem to be filled with their own train of thinking, convictions, and purposes to the exclusion of everything else.
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I’m too much of a Libra. I too often see the other person’s point of view and capitulate, even though I have strong political convictions. It’s just my liability. Maybe I’m too empathetic. That’s the actor in me.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.
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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.
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We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
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Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.
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Our political differences, no matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.
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Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
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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.
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The records are black boxes for me. Like, if you want to know who I am, my views, my perspective, things I love, things I hate, my convictions, my anthems. I’ve never let people’s opinions affect the way I write.
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We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.
