Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions."
Conviction quotes
Conviction
262 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Seamus Heaney
Poet, Playwright
"Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for."
Hannah Arendt
Philosopher, Political Theorist
"The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any."
Lottie Moon
Missionary
"I have a firm conviction that I am immortal until my work is done."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Novelist
"That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer."
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"The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?"
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"I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence."
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"I am not a consensus politician. Im a conviction politician."
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"One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable."
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"Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction."
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"When you flip anything, you really you just have to have the courage of your convictions."
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"Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere."
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"You can't take yourself too seriously. But always have conviction."
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"By the mind one is bound; by the mind one is freed. ... He who asserts with strong conviction: "I am not bound, I am free," becomes free."
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"Every fool stands convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool. The faultier a person's judgement the firmer their convictions."
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"I love opposition that has convictions."
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"The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something"
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"Man's will, sustained by an indominable conviction, is much more powerful than material forces that seem insurmountable."
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"There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series."
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"I am influenced more than ever before by the conviction that social equality is the only basis of human happiness."
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"I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them."
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"The Cat was a creature of absolute convictions, and his faith in his deductions never varied."
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"If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war."
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"In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all."
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"I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity"
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