Conviction Quotes - Page 13

• Conviction is a force multiplier. If you want something, claim it in your gut. The universe itself responds to your inner certainty.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Want Something, Power Of Positive Thinking

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 16, 2013

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• Men and women, inspired by faith in man's dignity, goaded by conviction in man's responsibility, labored that this land might be a better home for those who followed them. Because every American generation attacked its problems with fresh vigor, we have peopled a continent, subdued its prairies and wilderness, tamed its rivers and devoted its resources to the betterment of those who dwell in it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Home, Responsibility, Men

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• Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if by renouncing the luxuries of life we can lighten the burdens of others.... surely the simplification of our wants is a thing greatly to be desired! And so, if instead of supposing that we must become hermits and dwellers in caves in order to practice simplicity, we set about simplifying our affairs, each according to his own convictions and opportunity, much good will result and the simple life will at once be established.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Happiness, Opportunity, Simple

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.62, Vintage

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• Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.

  Margery Allingham

  Happiness, Men, Self

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• Our greatest challenge today is to couple conviction with doubt. By conviction, I mean some pragmatically developed faith, trust, or centeredness; and by doubt I mean openness to the ongoing changeability, mystery, and fallibility of the conviction.

  Kirk J. Schneider

  Couple, Mean, Challenges

  Kirk J. Schneider (1990). “The Paradoxical Self: Toward an Understanding of Our Contradictory Nature”, Prometheus Books

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• I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state.

  Jim Garrison

  Defense, Satisfaction, Sides

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• Stated in the simplest terms, the recognized solution to the problem of foodborne illness is a comprehensive prevention strategy that involves all participants in the food system, domestic and foreign, doing their part to minimize the likelihood of harmful contamination. And that is the strategy mandated by FSMA. It is not a strategy that assumes we can achieve a zero-risk food supply, but it is a strategy grounded in the conviction that we can better protect consumers and the economic vigor of the food system if everyone involved implements reasonably available measures to reduce risk.

  Michael R. Taylor

  Zero, Safety, Risk

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• Living consciously reflects the conviction that sight is preferable to blindness; that respecting the facts of reality is more satisfying than denying them; that evasion does not make the unreal real or the real unreal; that it is better to correct your mistakes that to pretend they do not exist; and that the more conscious you are of facts bearing on your life and goals, the more wisely and effectively you can act.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Life, Real, Mistake

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• We Masons are among the fortunate ones who are taught to meet together with others opposing convictions or competitive ideas and yet respect each other as Brothers.

  Albert Pike

  Brother, Ideas, Together

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• In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but of spiritual conceptions. Equality, liberty, popular sovereignty, the rights of man - these are not elements which we can see and touch. They are ideals. They have their source and their roots in the religious convictions. They belong to the unseen world. Unless the faith of the American people in these religious convictions is to endure, the principles of our Declaration will perish. We can not continue to enjoy the result if we neglect and abandon the cause.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Spiritual, Religious, Men

  Speech on the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 5, 1926.

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• I have been thinking a lot about these things as I have come to the realization of the tremendous responsibilities which rest upon me. It is my conviction that the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is that they have gotten too far away from Almighty God. I am bound to believe that in a tumultuous age like ours the most important and imperative duty is the reconstruction of humanity to Almighty God.

  Warren G. Harding

  Believe, Responsibility, Thinking

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• What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal.

  Adi Shankara

  Truth, Real, Self

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• So long as human history continues, we will face the perennial challenge of realizing, maintaining and strengthening peace through dialogue, of making dialogue the sure and certain path to peace. We must uphold and proclaim this conviction without cease, whatever coldly knowing smiles or cynical critiques may greet us.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Knowing, Long, Cynical

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• Today, we're taking a break from the concerns and the bustle of the work-a-day world. But we're also making a new beginning... Let us renew our faith that as free men and women we still have the power to better our lives, and let us resolve to face the challenges of the new year holding that conviction firmly in our hearts. That, after all, is our greatest strength and our greatest gift as Americans.

  Ronald Reagan

  New Year, New Beginnings, Heart

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• It is my deepest conviction that the children should be seen and heard as our most treasured assets.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, Assets, Should

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• What is courage? It is the ability to be strong in trust, in conviction, in obedience. To be courageous is to step out in faith - to trust and obey, no matter what.

  Kay Arthur

  Strong, Matter, Steps

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• There's one thing we need above everything else; it's something we don't talk about these days. We need a mighty avalanche of conviction of sin.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Avalanches, Needs, Sin

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• You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art.

  Maya Lin

  Art, Brain, Matter

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• Active waiting means present fully to the moment, in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want to be present to it.

  Henri Nouwen

  Mean, Waiting, Want

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• One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Opinion, Hundred

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• God will never plant the seed of his life upon the soil of a hard, unbroken spirit. He will only plant that seed where the conviction of his spirit has brought brokenness, where the soil has been watered with the tears of repentance as well as the tears of joy.

  Alan Redpath

  Joy, Tears, Unbroken

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• Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Suits, Protest, Humane

  "The trumpet of conscience".

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• It's your life - but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else . . . you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Integrity, Important, True And False

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.111, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world.

  J. C. Ryle

  Jesus, Fall, Men

  J.C RYLE, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS”, Lulu.com

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• Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mother of great deeds.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Deeds, Have Faith

  Swami Vivekananda (1997). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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