Conviction Quotes - Page 38

• You need conviction in your own beliefs, and the willingness to ignore others naysaying.

  Sam Altman

  Needs, Belief, Willingness

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• No one begs you to be a poet or write a 1000-page poem. You have to be fueled by a drive, a conviction - a need, a necessity, a vision that is so pressing that it has no other outlet but through you. That doesn't mean that you are unconscious or in trance, but there can be moments like that.

  Anne Waldman

  Writing, Mean, Vision

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• The notion of "humanity" as a form of transcendence derives, I think, from the conviction that intellectuality possesses an absolute power, from the demand that our best behavior depends on our ability to think abstractly, in terms of a universal rule, about something called humanity, that we need to understand humanity abstractly so that we can act responsibly towards those who represent it.

  Talal Asad

  Thinking, Humanity, Needs

  "Do Muslims Belong in the West? An Interview with Talal Asad". Interview with Hasan Azad, www.jadaliyya.com. February 3, 2015.

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• Believers are often thought of as people who have some kind of private conviction or repudiation of something, whereas "the faithful" refers to a relationship, which was also incidentally the earlier sense of "faith" in premodern, preliberal Christianity. This is not to say, incidentally, that "faith" refers simply to external behavior as opposed to internal belief but that it refers to an act.

  Talal Asad

  People, Faithful, Belief

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• There is a strength of conviction that can only come from being 100% wrong.

  Stephen Schneider

  Funny, Comedy

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• I love anybody who has convictions enough to make mistakes because only people who make mistakes get into enough trouble to be called drama, I think.

  James Marsters

  Mistake, Drama, Thinking

  "James Marsters Invades Caprica". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. March 8, 2010.

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• I am one of the proudest men ever born, but let me tell you frankly, it is not for myself, but on account of my ancestry. The more I have studied the past, the more I have looked back, more and more has this pride come to me, and it has given me the strength and courage of conviction, raised me up from the dust of the earth, and set me working out that great plan laid out by those great ancestors of ours.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Pride, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.266, Advaita Ashrama

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• I rejected the God that was portrayed as masculine and judgmental and cruel at times. The concept of us bring not worthy to receive him is something I used to say every Sunday in church, and eventually I just couldn't say it with any conviction.

  Alanis Morissette

  Sunday, Church, Judgmental

  "New Again: Alanis Morissette". Interview with Elizabeth Weitzman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2015.

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• The abyss beyond our beliefs is something we have to pass through in order to see the world anew, to see it in terms not dictated so much by our culture, our parents, or our religious convictions.

  Sam Keen

  Religious, Order, Parent

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• I like to be an inspiration and an example of the idea that you can be independent, and it's no problem, and you can pay your rent, and it's empowering, and it's great. And that's true, but it also takes a really long time, and you have to have a lot of patience and a lot of conviction in why you want to remain independent.

  Ani DiFranco

  Inspiration, Independent, Ideas

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. March 13, 2002.

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• The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery, that it might be better for you, Dear Reader, if you went back to the Living section of your newspaper because this is the dying section and you don't really want to be here.

  Don DeLillo

  Dying, Want, Might

  "Anything Can Happen: Interviews with Contemporary American Novelists". Book by Tom LeClair, Larry McCaffery, perival.com. 1979.

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• [We are] no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Nwo, Free Opinion

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People”, p.136, tredition

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• Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Strong, Believe, Self

  "Gather Together in My Name". Book by Maya Angelou, p. 17, 1974.

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• "Every leader makes mistakes, every leader stumbles and falls. The question with a senior level leader is, does she learn from her mistakes, regroup, and then get going again with renewed speed, conviction and confidence?"

  Jack Welch

  Senior, Mistake, Fall

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• Man's pursuit of physical desires and earthly possessions is an indication of his lack of conviction that the purpose of his existence is the attainment of spirituality.

  Abraham J. Twerski

  Men, Desire, Purpose

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• If you have political convictions... keep 'em to yourself

  Johnny Cash

  Political, Ems, Ifs

  Johnny Cash (2011). “Johnny Cash Anthology (Songbook)”, p.253, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Hope is not a feeling. It is not the belief that things will turn out well, but the conviction that what you are doing makes sense, no matter how things turn out.

  Vaclav Havel

  Feelings, Matter, Belief

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• Worst of all, however, is the devastation wrought by the misuse of religious conviction for political ends. In truth, we cannot sharply enough attack those wretched crooks who would like to make religion an implement to perform political or rather business services for them.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Political, Crooks

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The main fighter for the DSP [Deutsch-Sozialistische Partei or German Socialist Party], as I have said, was Julius Streicher, then a teacher in Nuremberg. At first he, too, had a holy conviction of the mission and the future of his movement.

  Adolf Hitler

  Teacher, Party, Firsts

  Adolf Hitler (1943). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Until you become completely obsessed with your mission, no one will take you seriously. Until the world understands that you're not going away-that you are 100 percent committed and have complete and utter conviction and will persist in pursuing your project-you will not get the attention you need and the support you want.

  Grant Cardone

  Support You, Going Away, Needs

  FaceBook post by Grant Cardone from Nov 28, 2016

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• In a world where the threat is asymmetrical, where the weak defy the strong, the power of conviction, the capacity to convince, the ability to sway opinion count as much as the number of military divisions.

  Dominique de Villepin

  Strong, Military, Numbers

  "Villepin, Not Again! Scam Allegations Won't Disappear For Former French Presidential Hopeful" by Jacey Fortin, www.ibtimes.com. September 12, 2012.

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• I do not seek unpopularity as a badge of honour, but sometimes it is the price of leadership and the cost of conviction.

  Tony Blair

  Cost, Sometimes, Badges

  Speech to the Labour Party Conference in Glasgow, www.independent.co.uk. February 21, 2003.

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• I directed and produced Conviction, a movie about a man who spent 18 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. I got to know Innocence Project co-founder Barry Scheck very well - he's a character in the movie - and I got very passionate about the cause. It's just so inherently dramatic.

  Tony Goldwyn

  Character, Men, Years

  "President Fitz (R-Scandal) Explains What’s Wrong With the Republican Party". Interview with Patrick Caldwell, www.motherjones.com. September 24, 2014.

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• Who has no own conviction dissipates himself in the imitation of others.

  Ernst Moritz Arndt

  Imitation

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• I have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues. Momentary success carries more power of conviction than reflections upon principles.

  Albert Einstein

  Eye, Reflection, Principles

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