68 Quotes About Convictions

I've never thought too hard about my convictions and wonder if it's too late now.

Acting on your convictions is the ultimate test of your faith in your convictions.

A common hesitation in our day touching the use of extreme convictions is a sort of notion that extreme convictions, especially upon cosmic matters, have been responsible in the past for the thing which is called bigotry. But a very small amount of direct experience will dissipate this view. In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.

He counts votes before he decides what to have for breakfast.

If I have to go into that good night, I'm goin' gentle; the hell with whoever said not to. That sucker's dead, man, so what did he know? Not even the courage of his convictions.

We need not be afraid of second-guessing our firm convictions or our holy truths because they often look like dazzling poppies or scented daffodils wilting after a while as if they had never existed. (“Measuring space”)

If you're afraid to defend your convictions because you might get your ass kicked for it, you're not really fit to advocate for them.

Wasn’t the whole point to build a bridge out ofconvictions, strong enough to span the gap between what one knows and what one believes?

I have always admired your refusal, in the pursuit of your convictions, ever to be constrained by considerations of humanity—much less of ordinary good manners.