top of page
"You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Conviction quotes

"Decide on what you think is right and stick to it."

"Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction."

"We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must."

"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."

"I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty."

"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures."

"It is better to believe than doubt."

"I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence."

"We tend to listen to the people who believe in their own words as opposed to those who don't. When we feel their conviction, they earn our buy-in."

"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library."
Explore more quotes by Denis Waitley

"Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away."

"Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy."

"The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives."

"If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad."

"Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience."

"Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision."

"The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success."

"Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time."
bottom of page