Conviction Quotes - Page 29

• I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.

  Alexander Pope

  Ambition, People, Emptiness

  Alexander Pope (1853). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”, p.73

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• Just as long as newspapers and magazines are controlled by men, every woman upon them must write articles which are reflections of men's ideas. As long as that continues, women's ideas and deepest convictions will never get before the public.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Writing, Reflection, Men

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• Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable.

  Epictetus

  Death, Evil, Use

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.77

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• The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the union of the states be cherished and perpetuated. Let the open enemy to it be regarded as a Pandora with her box opened, and the disguised one as the serpent creeping with his deadly wiles into paradise.

  James Madison

  Heart, Advice, Enemy

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others.

  Blaise Pascal

  May, Praise, Disregard

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• There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.

  Agnes Repplier

  Book, Heart, Men

  Agnes Repplier (1894). “In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers”

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• Like all born politicians, their eye was for the main chance rather than for the argument, and they found it easier to forswear a conviction than to forego a comfort.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Eye, Comfort, Chance

  Ellen Glasgow (1933). “The Old Dominion Edition of the Works of Ellen Glasgow: The Miller of Old Church”

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• a successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Successful, Principles, Doe

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1900). “The Voice of the People”

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• convictions ... are always getting in the way of opportunities.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Opportunity, Principles, Way

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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• Leaps over walls - especially when taken late in life - can be extremely perilous. To leap successfully, you need a sense of humor, the spirit of adventure and an unshakable conviction that what you are leaping over is an obstacle upon which you would otherwise fall down.

  Monica Baldwin

  Wall, Fall, Taken

  Monica Baldwin (2016). “I Leap Over The Wall - Contrasts And Impressions After Twenty-Eight Years In A Convent”, p.7, Read Books Ltd

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• One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.

  B. Alan Wallace

  Lying, Source, Delusion

  B. Alan Wallace (2014). “Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity”, p.41, Columbia University Press

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• Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But those they have are great and burning. The greatest is their conviction that without freedom human life is not worth living.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Passion, Emotional, Burning

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher “Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life”

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• A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.

  John Stuart Mill

  Men, Profound, Feelings

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• The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Art, People, Feelings

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.6, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.

  Lillian Hellman

  Hollywood, Television, Made

  Lillian Hellman, Jackson R. Bryer (1986). “Conversations with Lillian Hellman”, p.117, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.

  Madame de Stael

  Civilization, Important Events, History

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• If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions.

  Julia Child

  Flip, Ifs

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• Poetry interprets in two ways: it interprets by expressing, with magical felicity, the physiognomy and movements of the outward world; and it interprets by expressing, with inspired conviction, the ideas and laws of the inward world of man's moral and spiritual nature. In other words, poetry is interpretative both by having natural magic in it, and by having moral profundity.

  Matthew Arnold

  Spiritual, Men, Law

  Matthew Arnold (1875). “Essays in Criticism”, p.128, London : [s.n.]

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• The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.

  Jane Addams

  Principles, Belief, Steadfastness

  Jane Addams (2010). “Peace and Bread in Time of War”, p.86, University of Illinois Press

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• The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.

  Hannah Arendt

  Knowledge, Men, Earth

  Hannah Arendt (1973). “The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is nothing so inconvenient in this world as an absolutely truthful person, who can both speak and write, and has the courage of his convictions. One can always arrange matters with liars ... But with the man or woman who holds truth dearer than life, and honor more valuable than advancement, there is nothing to be done, now that governments cannot insist on the hemlock-cure, as in the case of Socrates.

  Marie Corelli

  Truth, Liars, Writing

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• It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Lying, Generations, Stealing

  Beryl Bainbridge (1981). “A weekend with Claude”, Gerald Duckworth & Company

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• ... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.

  Margaret Deland

  Arrogant, Conceit, Emancipation

  Margaret Deland (1894). “Sidney”

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• Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Choices, Matter, Belief

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• I wrote almost all of it in the deepest hope and conviction. Sifting my thoughts and choosing my words. Trying to say what was true. And I'll tell you frankly, that was wonderful.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Trying, Sifting, Wonderful

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.19, Macmillan

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