quotations about conviction
It takes but one person, one moment, one conviction, to start a ripple of change.
DONNA BRAZILE
CNN, December 19, 2014
Conviction, it turns out, is a luxury of those standing on the sidelines.
AKIVA GOLDSMITH
A Beautiful Mind
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
True conviction is believing something to be right even after it becomes disadvantageous to you.
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
Young Jane Young
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