quotations about conviction
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
RALPH NADER
attributed, The Entrepreneur's Guide to Successful Leadership
Convictions are prisons.... A spirit who wants great things, who wants the means to them, is necessarily a skeptic. The freedom from every kind of conviction belongs to strength, the ability to see freely.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
The Antichrist
Keep testing your conviction from time to time, with your intellect as well as emotions to ensure you are on the right path.
ANURANJITA KUMAR
Can I Have It All?
It is not the struggle of opinions that has made history so violent, but rather the struggle of belief in opinions, that is, the struggle of convictions.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Human, All Too Human
The extraordinary thing about having absolute conviction that you're doing the right thing is that you'll do it -- whatever that may be, no matter how difficult, dangerous or improbable.
JAN GOLEMBIEWSKI
Magic
Our convictions are the facts assured to us on the testimony of our own nature, our own senses, or our own reason.
SABINE BARING-GOULD
The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity
At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
"Bernice Bobs Her Hair"
Conviction is like instinct. There is no teacher, necessary validation, or drawnout thought process that evokes conviction. Conviction knows.
RALPH LEE, JR.
Is Death So Good That Life Is Bad?
There is no power but in conviction.
FRANÇOIS-RENÉE DE CHATEAUBRIAND
The Beauties of Christianity
To persevere in anything exceptional requires inner strength and the unshakable conviction that you are right.
CHIN-NING CHU
Thick Face, Black Heart
I've got convictions until I've got others.
ALAIN BREMOND-TORRENT
running is flying intermittently
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
DANIEL WEBSTER
attributed, Reminiscences: (mainly personal) of William Graham Sumner
It takes a disciplined person to listen to convictions which are different from their own.
DOROTHY FULDHEIM
A Thousand Friends
The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and makes us incapable of accepting the proofs against it.
JONS JACOB BERZELIUS
attributed, The Study of Chemical Composition
The intricate geography of convictions impresses me greatly. Some seem determined by the cultural or family conditioning of early years, others picked up along the way. Some last for a lifetime, rocklike, while others pass easily into their successors--and these transformations usually depend more on personality and circumstances than on the passion with which convictions are held.
WESLEY J. WILDMAN
Fidelity with Plausibility: Modest Christologies in the Twentieth Century
Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.
JOSÉ ORTEGA Y GASSET
The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture, and Literature
In science, convictions have no right to citizenship, as one says with good reason: only when they decide to step down to the modesty of a hypothesis, a tentative experimental standpoint, a regulative fiction, may they be granted admission and even a certain value in the realm of knowledge--though always with the restriction that they remain under police supervision.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
The Gay Science
Conviction, it turns out, is a luxury of those standing on the sidelines.
AKIVA GOLDSMITH
A Beautiful Mind
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
HENRIK IBSEN
An Enemy of the People
Sometimes i want to be like the sun, raising above my thoughts, enlightening the landscapes with a clear conviction.
ALAIN BREMOND-TORRENT
running is flying intermittently