Conviction Quotations | Page 2

There are times in the life of nations when they feel confident that they can take on the world, that they are capable of meeting any challenge. One reason such a mind-set is important is that it creates an intolerance for laziness, for shoddy products, for open corruption, and for the usual excuses. When people have a strong conviction that they can achieve the possibilities of the future, it makes them less tolerant of impediments in their way to it.

People who see no gray tend to convince others to follow them. If someone talks with great conviction and joy, people tend to agree with them.

Our report overturns the long-held conviction that to lose weight, you have to enroll in an expensive program, buy special food, or follow the regimen of a particular diet guru,

How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic?

The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew themselves unable to bear it. It is the sediment, not the wave, of a sex. It is the antithesis of that highest and sweetest mystery - conviction by submission, and conquest by sacrifice.

The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

You do have some impetus today but there's little conviction and little volume. I didn't see any specific reason behind the rally - people may be just trying to outguess the outcome (of the Fed meeting).

You do have some impetus today but there's little conviction and little volume, ... I didn't see any specific reason behind the rally - people may be just trying to outguess the outcome (of the Fed meeting).

Love of, and respect for, the humble routine of everyday life and its creatures was the only moral commandment which carried conviction when I was a child.