CONVICTION QUOTES III

quotations about conviction

People don't follow words; they follow conviction and without conviction the words are meaningless.

JENNIFER OTT

Serendipidus


Men who have lost their conviction of what is good and what is bad find themselves without a sextant to check their position by. We are in the position of a man with an elaborate camping kit who finds himself lost in the woods without his matches; to kindle a fire he has to resort to the stratagems of the caveman. We fall back through generations into the oldest terrors and confusions of the race.

JOHN DOS PASSOS

The Prospect Before Us


It takes but one person, one moment, one conviction, to start a ripple of change.

DONNA BRAZILE

CNN, December 19, 2014


Convictions are wonderful and dangerous things. They drive the most noble human achievements, and many of the horrific ones, too. We should celebrate the orientation to life and the steadiness of character produced by convictions. And we should be wary of allowing our convictions to remain unexamined.

WESLEY J. WILDMAN

Fidelity with Plausibility: Modest Christologies in the Twentieth Century


True conviction is believing something to be right even after it becomes disadvantageous to you.

GABRIELLE ZEVIN

Young Jane Young