I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do — a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil.

This meeting greatly strengthened my conviction that cooperation between both countries may have another strong boost. We identified a desire for cooperation in all levels of government, not only of the Executive, but also of...

Sometimes what you love to do could even make many people to hate you. You may go through non-formal torments, character assassinations, verbal assaults and societal rejections, but if you are convinced about your love...

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing I had to do in life.

Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination

The high-tech sector is relatively weak; there’s not a lot of conviction. It’s lost favor with investors who would in the past see Nortel down a dollar and want to buy. We’re not seeing that...

The nearer Christ comes to a heart, the more it becomes conscious of its guilt; it will then either ask for his mercy and find peace, or else it will turn against Him because it...

The person who hurt you–who raped you or killed your family–is also here. If you are still angry at that person, if you haven’t been able to forgive, you are chained to him. Everyone could...

We think we know.””Know? That’s worse than an atom bomb, and always was.

There is no respect between the souls of two individuals if their minds can’t trust each other and there is no trust between them if their hearts can’t accept the truth of each other.

In some cases, I am able to respect what so many call bigots. Such people have a more solid foundation for drawing their lines when it comes to the security of their ways and quite...

He may have as strong a sense of what would be right, as you can have, without being so equal under particular circumstances to act up to it.””Then, it would not be so strong a...

[Philippine President Joseph Estrada said he was saddened by the conviction.] It’s very unfortunate and what happened is saddening, … If he really is innocent, then the day will come that his name will be...

What is important is that one utilizes one’s intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one’s convictions. One should always leave room for doubt.

Al Gore Jr. acted with honor and conviction in volunteering for service in a war he despised. … To save the seat of his father — a political warrior in the cause of peace —...

Dad scowls. “Phen.” He says the name like it’s a swear word. “Disgusting, cowardly creatures, the ambivalent. Worse than the fallen, in many ways.” His eyes are so fierce it’s a tad scary. “They have...

Roache’s statement after his acquittal was dignified but his supporters were angry. They demanded to know why the case was ever brought, claiming that the actor was a victim of the “hysteria” created by revelations...

You are entitled to your opinion but you are not entitled to dictate mine.

When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must, at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions bare...

I believe that sexual offenders and predators should be released…as long as it is mandatory they get to move into the house next door to the judge that released them.

Conviction says, ‘My behavior was wrong.’ Satan, on the other hand, floods our hearts with shame. Shame says, ‘There is something wrong with me.

I think if I had this evidence before a jury, I could get a conviction,

Do what you think is right. Don’t let people make the decision of right or wrong for you.

I think it’s a trading rally from an oversold position, … I don’t think there’s a lot of conviction behind it.

That which struck the present writer most forcibly on his first perusal of the ‘Origin of Species’ was the conviction that Teleology, as commonly understood, had received its deathblow at Mr. Darwin’s hands. For the...

Members may escape a conviction for bribery but not escape the political fallout.

Faith to me is trusting in every evidence that something is―that it is possible, that it is significant, that it is real.

It is my conviction that, with the spread of true scientific culture, whatever may be the medium, historical, philological, philosophical, or physical, through which that culture is conveyed, and with its necessary concomitant, a constant...

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...

Many people place facts above faith and that makes things seem impossible for them

If you don’t love what you do, you won’t do it with much conviction or passion.

Don’t allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily

Trust is like a two-way mirror, transparent on one side, with a blind dimness unable to see through on the other side.

Congress should make it so that all sex scenes in all films should be provided with a screaming baby sound track. That should help take away all the fun and may show a major decrease...

We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come.But we must.

In 2011 in Swansea, Wales, Colin Batley was found guilty of 35 charges relating to his role as the leader of a ‘satanic cult’ that sexually abused children and women, manufactured child abuse images and...

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...

Self-confidence is the degree of control,conviction and contention on own character.

There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you’re wrong and you can’t face it; the other is when you’re right and nobody else can face it.

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

Those mortals who operate in the grey area between conviction and incredulity are in a position to choose most meaningfully, and with most meaningful consequences […] Perhaps only a doubter can appreciate the miracle of...

Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went into a protracted swoon during the Reagan-Bush-Thatcher decade, and shows scant sign of recovering a critical...

We live our thoughts and manifest them in our attitudes toward ourselves and others. We cannot live beyond our thoughts and convictions.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

If we don’t fight for what we ‘stand for’ with our passionate words and honest actions, do we really ‘stand’ for anything?

{Letter to his brother, 1861}… I remain an utter disbeliever in almost all that you consider the most sacred truths… But whether there be a God and whatever be His nature; whether we have an...

[W]hat one has as a born Catholic is something given and accepted before it is experienced. I am only slowly coming to experience things that I have all along accepted. I suppose the fullest writing...

What other people may think of the rightness or wrongness is nothing in comparison to my own deep knowledge, my innate conviction that it was wrong.