Conviction Quotes - Page 7

• The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.112, Wordsworth Editions

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• I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Vanity, Literature, Firm

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

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Intellectual, Poverty, Naive

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• Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.

  Franz Liszt

  Art, Path, Recognition

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• Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Suffering, Belief

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• Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.

  Guy Verhofstadt

  Friends, Fire, Safety

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• Convictions do not imply reasons.

  Margaret Deland

  Reason

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• Ronald Reagan's well documented final battles with Alzheimer's disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought.

  Bill Jenkins

  Alzheimer's, Battle, Finals

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• There's Eddie's conviction and his lyrics and his ideals, and he can just rock straight out. His vocals are incredible. And we all are really competent musicians.

  Mike McCready

  Rocks, Insecurity, Musician

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• That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Summer, Great Gatsby Book, Great Gatsby Gatsby

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby: The Authentic Edition from Fitzgerald’s Original Publisher: The authentic edition from Fitzgerald’s original publisher”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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  Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

  Gertrude Stein

  Luck, Literature, Boast

  Gertrude Stein (1952). “The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein: Mrs. Reynolds, and five earlier novelettes”

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• With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.

  Pat Benatar

  Leadership, Sacrifice, Grace

  Song: Invincible, 1985

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• If you know the differences between an oak and a poplar, a spruce and a pine, down to the needles... you are able to paint that tree with more conviction, even if done with a few broad strokes.

  T. Allen Lawson

  Differences, Tree, Done

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• Somewhere in my head, a private conviction exists that 'Search is the Process' and 'Discovery the Art Form.

  Abe Ajay

  Art, Discovery, Form

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• True conviction of sin--how difficult it is, when its appearances and modes of life are so fair, when it twines itself so cunningly about, or creeps so insidiously into, our amiable qualities, and sets off its internal disorders by so many outward charms and attractions.

  Horace Bushnell

  Quality, Sin, Appearance

  Horace Bushnell (1866). “The new life”, p.233

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• If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion.

  Mia Hamm

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Conformity, Be A Man

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?”, p.86, Beacon Press

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• It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.

  Pope John Paul II

  Religious, Would Be, Moral

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• An indictment is not a conviction.

  Howard Coble

  Indictment

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• My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

  Arthur Keith

  Growth, Ethics, Concerned

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.

  Rick Warren

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "EXCLUSIVE Rick Warren: 'Flat Out Wrong' That Muslims, Christians View God the Same". Interview with Brandon A. Cox and The Christian Post, www.christianpost.com. March 2, 2012.

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Faith

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• Biblical convictions are essential for spiritual growth and maturity. What is ironic today is that people often have strong convictions about weak issues (football, fashion, etc.) while having weak convictions about major issues (what is right and what is wrong).

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Football, Spiritual

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• Are we willing to risk being misunderstood and maligned in order that truth might be told and men might be saved? Identifying a malady and explaining its seriousness are always the first steps to finding a cure... God has ordained that men come to conviction of sin, repentance, and saving faith through preaching. Yet how can the [Holy] Spirit use our preaching if we are not willing to expose sin or call men to repentance?

  Paul Washer

  Men, Order, Risk

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