44 Conviction Quotes To Inspire

In a world where opinions are abundant and beliefs are constantly challenged, possessing unwavering conviction can be a source of personal strength and clarity. Whether you’re navigating personal decisions, driving towards professional goals, or standing up for a cause you deeply believe in, conviction provides the steadfast foundation needed to persevere. To help you harness this powerful mindset, we’ve compiled a carefully curated collection of the top 44 conviction quotes. These pearls of wisdom from influential thinkers, leaders, and visionaries are sure to ignite your inner resolve and inspire your journey ahead. Dive in and let these powerful words empower your path!

1. “Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.” - Thomas Carlyle

2. “What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.” - Thomas Paine

3. “Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily” - Paulo Coelho

4. “To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.” - Jane Austen

5. “What do you think will be more effective when it comes to succeeding, believing you can or KNOWING you will? Let today be the last day you took timid steps of belief and start taking confident steps of purpose-driven knowing!” - Steve Maraboli

6. “Do what you think is right. Don't let people make the decision of right or wrong for you.” - Steve Maraboli

7. “rush of pine scent (once upon a time),the unlicensed convictionthere ought to be another wayof sayingthis.” - Paul Celan

8. “Conviction affects all substances in the vicinity.” - Toba Beta

9. “The highest court is in the end one’s own conscience and conviction—that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist—and before any science there is first of all belief.” - Max Planck

10. “Conviction's contagious as virus spreads.” - Toba Beta

11. “Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over the external sanctions because he has no fundamental assurance that his own choices have any sanction of their own” - Rollo May

12. “When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must, at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your faith.” - Abraham Kuyper

13. “The great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.” - George Eliot

14. “I meant what I said and I said what I meant.” - Dr. Seuss

15. “The Holy Spirit makes us aware of our lack of holiness to stimulate us to deeper yearning and striving for holiness. But Satan will attempt to use the Holy Spirit’s work to discourage us.” - Jerry Bridges

16. “The person who hurt you--who raped you or killed your family--is also here. If you are still angry at that person, if you haven't been able to forgive, you are chained to him. Everyone could feel the emotional truth of that: When someone offends you and you haven't let go, every time you see him, you grow breathless or your heart skips a beat. If the trauma was really severe, you dream of revenge. Above you, is the Mountain of Peace and Prosperity where we all want to go. But when you try to climb that hill, the person you haven't forgiven weighs you down. It's a personal choice whether or not to let go. No one can tell you how long to mourn a death or rage over a rape. But you can't move forward until you break that chain.” - Leymah Gbowee

17. “You cannot build a dream on a foundation of sand. To weather the test of storms, it must be cemented in the heart with uncompromising conviction.” - T.F. Hodge

18. “When spontaneous demoralizing thoughts seep into your conscience, don't trip...allowing them to fester. These are random tests of your conviction and determination. Large or small, your reaction to such intrusions is a defining moment for which no one else, but you, can mitigate.” - T.F. Hodge

19. “If you forget your lines, you had better mumble with conviction.” - Connie Brockway

20. “I have always tried to be obedient regarding important matters like not being scalded to death by burning oil, but when public opinion takes a route far from one's inner conviction, one cannot value disobedience too highly.” - Barbara Dana

21. “And now, Elric had told three lies. The first concerned his cousin Yyrkoon. The second concerned the Black Sword. The third concerned Cymoril. And upon those three lies was Elric's destiny to be built, for it is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.” - Michael Moorcock

22. “I am blind and limited. I would be a fool think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me. I must be true to my heart.” - Jim Butcher

23. “Conviction says, 'My behavior was wrong.' Satan, on the other hand, floods our hearts with shame. Shame says, 'There is something wrong with me.” - Dale Forehand

24. “One may not always know his purpose until his only option is to monopolize in what he truly excels at. He grows weary of hearing the answer 'no' time and time again, so he turns to and cultivates, monopolizes in his one talent which others cannot possibly subdue. Then, beyond the crowds of criticism and rejection, the right people recognize his talent - among them he finds his stage.” - Criss Jami

25. “Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.” - Oliver Goldsmith

26. “Are we willing to shun vain repetition and keep our prayers out of an unchallenging rut by asking God to make us more sensitive to our own sin?” - John Pereira

27. “When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.” - Criss Jami

28. “Little faith is enough to see the mountains of sin but not enough to see that Son of Righteousness that shall arise over them.” - Ralph Bouma

29. “How often have you and I helped to keep sinners easy in their sin, by our inconsistency! Had we been true Christians, the wicked man would often have been pricked to the heart, and his conscience would have convicted him.” - Charles H. Spurgeon

30. “Para o homem que tem uma convicção, ela é a sua espinha dorsal.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

31. “Those mortals who operate in the grey area between conviction and incredulity are in a position to choose most meaningfully, and with most meaningful consequences […] Perhaps only a doubter can appreciate the miracle of life without end.” - Terryl L. Givens

32. “It wasn't until I found the courage to look inthe mirror and say, 'I Love You' with conviction that I felt truly amazing! If no one loves you, love yourself!” - R.S. Lewis

33. “Success also requires the courage to risk disapproval. Most independent thought, new ideas, or endeavors beyond the common measure are greeted with disapproval, and ranging from skepticism and ridicule to violent outrage. To persevere in anything exceptional requires inner strength and the unshakable conviction that you are right.” - Chin Ning Chu

34. “He may have as strong a sense of what would be right, as you can have, without being so equal under particular circumstances to act up to it.""Then, it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.” - Jane Austen

35. “Faith to me is trusting in every evidence that something is―that it is possible, that it is significant, that it is real.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

36. “The nearer Christ comes to a heart, the more it becomes conscious of its guilt; it will then either ask for his mercy and find peace, or else it will turn against Him because it is not yet ready to give up its sinfulness. Thus He will separate the good from the bad, the wheat from the chaff. Man's reaction to this Divine Presence will be the test: either it will call out all the opposition of egotistic natures, or else galvanize them into a regeneration and a resurrection.” - Fulton J. Sheen

37. “Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.” - Wayne Gerard Trotman

38. “[W]hat one has as a born Catholic is something given and accepted before it is experienced. I am only slowly coming to experience things that I have all along accepted. I suppose the fullest writing comes from what has been accepted and experienced both and that I have just not got that far yet all the time. Conviction without experience makes for harshness.” - Flannery O'Connor

39. “In some cases, I am able to respect what so many call bigots. Such people have a more solid foundation for drawing their lines when it comes to the security of their ways and quite possibly the security of mankind. They rely on something that has worked to get man this far without placing ideals blindly driven by emotion first; they have a sure line and they say, 'No.' That, in a sense, is something I find to be highly respectable.” - Criss Jami

40. “We think we know.""Know? That's worse than an atom bomb, and always was.” - William Golding

41. “It made me in all matters a fundamentalist. I didn't go to 'take it in.' I went to be convicted.” - Denis Johnson

42. “Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing I had to do in life.” - Will Self

43. “What other people may think of the rightness or wrongness is nothing in comparison to my own deep knowledge, my innate conviction that it was wrong.” - Elizabeth Gaskell

44. “It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.” - Criss Jami