No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites.
If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others.
Beware lest we mistake our prejudices for our convictions.
Without conviction that you can make change happen, you will not act, even if you see the vision. Your feelings will hold you back.
Blasphemy and prayer are one. Both assert the existence of a superior power. The first, however, with conviction.
One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.
I don't think my religious convictions should be held against me
Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.
There’s no basis or anything. I just have this conviction that appeared inside of me which I have to follow.
Moke Kupihea has the strength of conviction necessary to impart to the world a more sensitive account of Hawaiian kahuna heritage, which comes down to him from the priesthood line from which he descends.
Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own.
I'd say that individuals are respected who stick to their convictions instead of doing whatever happens to be in fashion.
The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience.
Leaps over walls - especially when taken late in life - can be extremely perilous. To leap successfully, you need a sense of humor, the spirit of adventure and an unshakable conviction that what you are leaping over is an obstacle upon which you would otherwise fall down.
What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power?
I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.
In the end, leaders are defined by the convictions they hold.
No one nowadays talks about the absolute, not even people with firm and deep religious convictions. The whole Hegelian project has no resonance for us, as it once had for the Germans in the 1820s and the British and Americans around the 1880s.
We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.