Conviction Quotes - Page 4

• It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

  Muhammad Ali

  Life, Motivational, Believe

  Twitter post from Feb 13, 2010

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• As we celebrate President Reagan's remarkable career and historic legacy, we also celebrate a man of strong character, deep conviction, unforgettable charm, and wonderful wit.

  Jim Ramstad

  Strong, Character, Men

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• I have a deep conviction that our lives are eternal, that it is waking and sleeping, that we are born together with the people we love lifetime after lifetime.

  Marcia Wallace

  Sleep, Love Life, People

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• I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect. . . Geometry should be ranked, not with arithmetic, which is purely aprioristic, but with mechanics.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Math, Science, Mechanic

  "Solid Shape". Book by Jan J. Koenderink, 1990.

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• Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

  Walter Benjamin

  Leap, Strollers, Robbers

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland (1996). “Selected Writings: 1913-1926”, p.481, Harvard University Press

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• I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Order, Political, Suffering

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• I have the courage of my convictions.

  Brigitte Bardot

  "Brigitte Bardot fights plan for Hollywood biopic" by Lizzy Davies, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2010.

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• No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Loyalty, Simple, Self Respect

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• The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Humility, Science, Arrogance

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• It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Birthday, Courage, Blessed

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.98, Library of Alexandria

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• Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Love, Life, Men

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Richard Burgin (1985). “Conversations with Isaac Bashevis Singer”, Doubleday Books

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• The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

  Walter Benjamin

  Power, Facts, Life Is

  Walter Benjamin, Peter Demetz (1986). “Reflections: essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writing”, Schocken

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• We all like to hear a man speak out on his convictions and principles. But at the same time, you must understand that when you're running on a ticket, you're running with a team.

  Richard J. Daley

  Running, Team, Men

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• There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.

  John Drinkwater

  Order, Judgment, Accepted

  John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

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• I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.

  Jose Saramago

  Leftists, Persons, Has Beens

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• Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Lying, Religion

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• The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

  Mark Twain

  Money, Rich, Foolish

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.20, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I am not a consensus politician. Im a conviction politician.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Politician, Consensus

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• The only thing more important than being good is being real. Authenticity is kinder than resignation without conviction. Truth leads to good faster than good leads to truth. Ultimately truth is good, but you have to live it from the inside out.

  Alan Cohen

  Uplifting, Real, Important

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• When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.

  Abraham Kuyper

  Running, Winning, Fire

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• I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not suspicious, where aging is not a problem.

  Tabare Vazquez

  Responsibility, Working Together, Aging

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• Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Experience, Harshness

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.97, Macmillan

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• I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me. I look at what is before my eyes, and say to myself, that white board must become something.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Eye, White, Boards

  Vincent van Gogh (1971). “Van Gogh's "diary"; the artist's life in his own words and art”

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• The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

  Samuel Butler

  Life, Happiness, Fear

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Being Yourself, Moving Forward, Inspiration

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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