#Conviction Quotes

“I hold my peace, sir? no; No, I will speak as liberal as the north; Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.”

“Honor's thoughtReigns solely in the breast of every man.”

“Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- "'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die."”

“A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says every thing, saying, at last, something good; but a heart in unison with his time and country. There is nothing whimsical or fantastic in his production, but sweet and sad earnest, freighted with the weightiest convictions, and pointed with the most determined aim which any man or class knows of in his times.”

“By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.”

“Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.”

“If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything.”

“If, however, there is to be a war of nerves let us make sure our nerves are strong and are fortified by the deepest convictions of our hearts.”

“If you know you are right, stay the course even though the whole world seems to be against you and everyone you know questions your judgment. When you prevail--and you eventually will if you stick to the job--they will all tell you that they knew all along you could do it.”

“Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause arises in the midst of a nation. Men of strenuous minds and high ideals come forward.... The attacks they sustain are more cruel than the collision of arms.... Friends desert and despise them.... They stand alone and oftentimes are made bitter by their isolation.... They are doing nothing less than defy public opinion, and shall they convert it by blows. Yes.”

“Funny to watch these Senators switching back and forth on Prohibition. Politics is a great character builder. You have to take a referendum to see what your convictions are for that day.”

“Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”

“I am sorry for those that disagree with me because I know that they are wrong.”

“So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.”

“Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.”

“The one thing you can do for others is the manage your own life. And do it with conviction.”

“Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.”

“Nothing shakes my opinion of a book. Nothing -- nothing. Only perhaps if it's the book of a young person -- or of a friend -- no, even so, I think myself infallible.”

“... but the important thing is that when you do find one where you really do know what you are doing, you must buy in quantity.... Charlie and I have made a dozen or so very big decisions relative to net worth, although not as big as they should have been. And in each of those, we've known that we were almost certain to be right going in.”

“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”

“You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you.”

“The truth is that I've got all my net worth safely in Berkshire and I will never sell a share so there is no one more concerned about what happens after my death than I am.”

“The great personal fortunes in the country weren't built on a portfolio of fifty companies. They were built by someone who identified one wonderful business. With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least 10% of your net worth in that stock.”

“I am out of step with present conditions. When the game is no longer played your way, it is only human to say the new approach is all wrong, bound to lead to trouble, and so on. On one point, however, I am clear. I will not abandon a previous approach whose logic I understand ( although I find it difficult to apply ) even though it may mean foregoing large, and apparently easy, profits to embrace an approach which I don't fully understand, have not practiced successfully, and which possibly could lead to substantial permanent loss of capital.”

“With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least ten per cent of your net worth in that stock”

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

“Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.”

“His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.”

“I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.”

“I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up.”

“In matters of principle, stand like a rock.”

“Sincerity of conviction and purity of motive will surely gain the day; and even a small minority, armed with these, is surely destined to prevail against all odds.”

“I am sensible that he who means to do mankind a real service must set down with the determination of putting up, and bearing with all their faults, follies, prejudices and mistakes until he can convince them that he is right.”

“But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.”

“I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope - the door of opportunity - is to be shut upon any man, no matter how worthy, purely upon the grounds of race or color. Such an attitude would, according to my convictions, be fundamentally wrong.”

“Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" thought the greed of getting supporters.”

“A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must....be undaunted when the going gets tough.”

“I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.”

“Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy.”

“Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost.”

“Circumstances should never alter principles!”

“I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think; but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so, I am the most helpless of men.”

“I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.”

“Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to.”

“I shall die, but I will not kill.”

“A child convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.The reward for a thing well done, is to have done it.”

“The fundamental challenge of achieving anything you wish is first to convince yourself to do it. Once you are totally convinced of its value, you'll find a way to get it done.”

“Force is the law of animals, men are ruled by conviction.”

“I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers, still crazy after all these years.”

“Let hundreds like me perish, but let truth triumph.”