Conviction Quotes

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.

In 2006, Yahoo wanted to buy the company for a billion dollars and everyone on our management team wanted to sell it and the board tried to fire me and basically in the next year, everyone else on the management team left because I hadn't done a good job communicating. I don't want to blame them. I hadn't done a good job communicating the long-term vision because I didn't, I wasn't thinking about that at the time.

The question whether truth is necessary, must not merely be affirmed beforehand, but must be affirmed to such an extent that the principle, belief, or conviction finds expression, that there is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only a secondary value.

Each man should speak his mind, even if everything were to be turned upside down. This point, however, is open to dispute.

Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction?

A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.

Convictions are prisons.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

It is my conviction that in time of war, when the cannon speaks with its powerful voice, the less we speak the better.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

When you receive criticism from well-meaning people, it pays to ask, 'Are they right?' And if they are, you need to adapt what they're doing. If they're not right, if you really have conviction that they're not right.

Will you choose a life of ease, or a life of service and adventure? Will you wilt under criticism, or will you follow your convictions? Will you bluff it out when you're wrong, or will you apologize? Will you guard your heart against rejection, or will you act when you fall in love? Will you play it safe, or will you be a little bit swashbuckling? When it's tough, will you give up, or will you be relentless? Will you be a cynic, or will you be a builder? Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind?

I might bend, but I will NEVER break because it's in my nature as a strong woman.

I do not fear men-at-arms; my way has been made plain before me. If there be men-at-arms my Lord God will make a way for me to go to my Lord Dauphin. For that am I come.

Even though I saw the executioner and the fire, I could not say anything but what I have said.

Every man gives his life for what he believes ... one life is all we have to live and we live it according to what we believe.

I fear nothing for God is with me!

I was admonished to adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse. As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.

I am not afraid... I was born to do this.