Conviction Quotes

"I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty."

"When you fight to give your family bread, that's not passion anymore: that's conviction."

"I've always had a sense that I am doing something very important, something vital."

"When you know something in your heart, you better not be quiet about it. You better speak out about it."

"Peace if possible, truth at all costs."

Martin Luther

"Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained."

"Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth."

"Never, 'for the sake of peace and quiet,' deny your own experience or convictions."

Dag Hammarskjöld

"If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war."

Leo Tolstoy

"I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill."

"A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching."

G. K. Chesterton

"If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say."

Barbara McClintock

“There are many people who will say housing is a human right, and yet it oftentimes seems as if it is relegated simply to a slogan. It often comes back to whether you're willing to fight for these ideals that you hold.”

“I am Muslim. I am a democratic socialist. And most damning of all, I refuse to apologise for any of this.”

“I had felt for a long time that, if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so.”

“Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?”

“In politics the middle way is none at all.”

“Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.”

“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.”

“Your father has been a man who acts on his beliefs and has certainly been faithful to his convictions.”

“I knew that the moment the great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two opposing factions, I would be on the side of the common people.”

"If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live."

"A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything."

Malcolm X

"The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid."

G. K. Chesterton

“Here I stand; I can do no other.”

Martin Luther