Conviction Quotes
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"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."
"One may not always know his purpose until his only option is to monopolize in what he truly excels at. He grows weary of hearing the answer 'no' time and time again, so he turns to and cultivates, monopolizes in his one talent which others cannot possibly subdue. Then, beyond the crowds of criticism and rejection, the right people recognize his talent - among them he finds his stage."
"I am blind and limited. I would be a fool think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me. I must be true to my heart."
"What do you think will be more effective when it comes to succeeding, believing you can or KNOWING you will? Let today be the last day you took timid steps of belief and start taking confident steps of purpose-driven knowing!"
"You cannot build a dream on a foundation of sand. To weather the test of storms, it must be cemented in the heart with uncompromising conviction."
"Let our voices be heard. I hope they will not be shrill voices, but, I hope we shall speak with such conviction that those to whom we speak shall know of the strength of our feeling and the sincerity of our efforts."
"When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction."
"When spontaneous demoralizing thoughts seep into your conscience, don't trip...allowing them to fester. These are random tests of your conviction and determination. Large or small, your reaction to such intrusions is a defining moment for which no one else, but you, can mitigate."
"Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated."
"Faith to me is trusting in every evidence that something is―that it is possible, that it is significant, that it is real."
"It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about."
"The highest court is in the end one’s own conscience and conviction—that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist—and before any science there is first of all belief."
"Personal revelation is better than public convictions."
"Enthusiasm can help you find the new doors, but it takes passion to open them. If you have a strong purpose in life, you don't have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there."
"Who you are in public is a test of your conviction; who you are in private, integrity."
"Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion."
"Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in."
"Guard yourself with a positive attitude, conviction, hope and fulfillment of your heart’s desire."
"Just please understand that everyone is going through a rough time as well. Even if they are hiding behind money or a simple smile. We are all continuously stumbling as we go about our lives. If we had perfect lives we'd all be perfect people. Only thing we can learn to do is endure or we will not be happy and happiness is the closest thing to perfect."
"Once you start questioning your beliefs, that's when it's all over. It is truly doubt that kills our conviction."
"rush of pine scent (once upon a time),the unlicensed convictionthere ought to be another wayof sayingthis."
"If you truly have faith in your convictions, then your convictions should be able to stand criticism and testing."
"Believe in something important. Pursue it wholeheartedly."
Fennel Hudson, Traditional Angling - Fennel's Journal - No. 6
"If life is music, I sometimes feel as though I was born on the off-beat of the song, and I love it. As Christian numbers reportedly decrease in America, my love for Christ feels as though it increases. Perhaps that is a little strange, yes, but in all honesty, I now want to be thought unfaithful about as much as a smug aristocrat wants to be thought a hobo."
"It sometimes requires ignorance and arrogance to know something for sure."
"Do what you think is right. Don't let people make the decision of right or wrong for you."
"If I am sufficiently brave to extract the cancer of fear, I have effectively gutted my conviction that what stands before me is impossible."
"Character and purpose are directly linked to confidence and conviction. What links them? Courage – to be oneself, no matter what others might say."
"Walk free from the long shadows cast by small people."
"Leadership is built on inspirations. Inspiration does both the theoretical and the practical job. By inspiration, people are not only informed to know what is right. But they are also convinced to always do what’s right."
"When people judge they completely lose sight of the blessings on their own tables. Jealousy or conviction is a very dark room."
"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated."
"If you truly love who you are, travel through this life with conviction, spread joy to others, embrace changes as they happen, then you will find balance in your life."
"A man can believe in a considerable deal of rubbish and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner."
"Looks sure can be deceiving: not every ‘ugly’ person is a ‘bad’ person (or is guilty of whatever it is that they are accused of)."
"Every life is a possession of faith and exercises an inevitable and silent propaganda."
"Grace works ahead of us to draw us toward faith, to begin its work in us. Even the first fragile intuition of conviction of sin, the first intimation of our need of God, is the work of preparing, prevening grace, which draws us gradually toward wishing to please God. Grace is working quietly at the point of our desiring, bringing us in time to despair over our own unrighteousness, challenging our perverse dispositions, so that our distorted wills cease gradually to resist the gift of God."
"If I tell some one that I love him – as I may have told a hundred others – my words will convey nothing to him; but the silence which will ensue, if I do indeed love him, will make clear in what depths lie the roots of my love, and will in its turn give birth to a conviction, that shall itself be silent; and in the course of a lifetime, this silence and this conviction will never again be the same. …"
"If you aren't willing to fight for what you believe in, then you don't really believe in it. Faith is a verb."
"I am positive that much that passes for the gospel in our day is very little more than a very mild case of orthodox religion grafted on to a heart that is sold out to the world in its pleasures and tastes and ambitions."
"Great leadership has more to do with character, courage, and conviction than it does with specific skills or competencies."
"Never let your goals or convictions get in the way of living your life. It's not about who dies with more, it's about who lived the most."
Teresa R. Funke, Bursts of Brilliance for a Creative Life blog
"Character that is fruit-producing can be summed up in the mastery of these 5 qualities: morals, but a sense of humor; love, but respect for criticism; intelligence without pretense; humility without self-loathing; and a mind open, but with solid convictions."
"Knowing the truth is so minuscule compared to having the nerve to say it...and even more to live it."
"with each measured step,we knowthis earth is only as solidas we are."
"Conviction says, 'My behavior was wrong.' Satan, on the other hand, floods our hearts with shame. Shame says, 'There is something wrong with me."
Dale Forehand, Let's Get Real: Bringing Authenticity and Wholeness to Your Marriage
"A 21st century poet is a woman who can speak her mind and stand upright like a mountain with her convictions, but can adapt like water in an ever changing season without losing her genuine elements."
"Many people place facts above faith and that makes things seem impossible for them"
"There is no greater power and support you can give someone than to look them in the eye, and with sincerity/conviction say, 'I believe in you."
Ken Poirot, Mentor Me: GA=T+E—A Formula to Fulfill Your Greatest Achievement
"See failure as an opportunity to try again with a relatively powerful approach, skill, knowledge and conviction. Redefine yourself."
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