Conviction Quotes - Page 6

• Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Leadership, Being Happy, Honesty

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• I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God.

  David Brainerd

  Long, Long Time, Left

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.44

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• Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face.

  Honore de Balzac

  Light, Shining, Clay

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• It requires a conviction that every people has a unique contribution to give to mankind, and that this they must make or remain sterile, subservient, sallow, and that this contribution they must have commenced to make before they can hope to understand the spirit that informs all great works and inspires all noble living.

  Lawren Harris

  Unique, People, Giving

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• When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Giving, Literature, Way

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• Beware of making a fetish of consistency to your convictions instead of being devoted to God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Consistency, Fetish, Devoted

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.82, Discovery House

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• However, it must always remain a dialogue, and never an imposition of the church's own convictions and methods. Propose, not impose. To serve, and not to dominate.

  Claudio Hummes

  Church, Method, Dialogue

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• Without core convictions to help us navigate, we stand uneasily on shifting sand, and we lack the solid footing with which to stage a life of principle and character. Today is a call to biblical conviction... What is needed today is a battalion of believers who follow Christ and stand for Him and His truth.

  Dennis Rainey

  Character, Biblical, Principles

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• If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Persuasion, Convincing, Convince

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.65, Oxford University Press

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• That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Lincoln Barnett, Albert Einstein (2005). “The Universe and Dr. Einstein”, p.109, Courier Corporation

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• It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

  Albert Einstein

  Peace, War, Killing Someone

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.56, St. Martin's Press

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  I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

  Gerry Spence

  Life, Faith, Religious

  "How to Argue and Win Every Time". Book by Gerry Spence, 1995.

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• The human body is capable of amazing physical deeds. If we could just free ourselves from our perceived limitations and tap into our internal fire, the possibilities are endless.

  Dean Karnazes

  Inspirational, Sports, Running

  Dean Karnazes (2006). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.155, Penguin

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• Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Ignorance, Comforting, Foundation

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.230, Macmillan

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• To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Spiritual, Taken, Rely Upon

  "The Revolution Betrayed" by Lenin Trotsky, (p. 236), 2006.

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• 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.

  Jim Cramer

  Optimistic

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• What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart.

  Learned Hand

  Determination, May, Safe

  Learned Hand (1968). “The art and craft of judging: the decisions of Judge Learned Hand”

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• I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Dream

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• The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.

  Elia Kazan

  Play, Made, Motion Pictures

  "A Statement: Communism, Free-Speech, and 'Naming Names'" by Elia Kazan, www.capitalismmagazine.com. April 19, 1999.

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• It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.

  Arthur Cohn

  Directors, Figures, Our Time

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• Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

  Bertrand Russell

  Summer, Moving, Men

  Sceptical Essays (1928) "Dreams and Facts"

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• In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Courage, Principles, Approval

  Remarks by President Gerald R. Ford on Receiving the 2001 Profile in Courage Award, www.jfklibrary.org. May 21, 2001.

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• I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.

  Michael Caine

  Regret, Aquarius, Acting

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• Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Class, Political, Discrimination

  "Trouble and Strife", Issues 13-17 (p. 45), 1988.

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

  George Eliot

  Writing, Social, Offence

  George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.565

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