Conviction Quotes - Page 2

• Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

  John Calvin

  Church, Submit, Implicit

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.484, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Animal, Needs, Fool

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• The Martha Stewart trial makes clear how far women have risen in the business world. America can be proud of our equal-opportunity prosecution and conviction.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Opportunity, America, Trials

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• Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

  Christopher Lasch

  Defense, Definitions, Flexible

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• A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

  Daniel Webster

  Strong, Political, Parent

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• Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Inspirational, Being Strong, Stay Strong

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• There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Suicide, Ignorance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.162, Harvard University Press

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• Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go.

  Lech Walesa

  Love, Peace, Goal

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• Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Player, Men, Gambling

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.133, University of Georgia Press

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• Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

  Vaclav Havel

  Inspiring, Dream, Hope

  "Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala". Book by Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson. Chapter 5: "The Politics of Hope", 1990.

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• Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.

  John McCain

  Political Differences, Matter, Consensus

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.

  John Dos Passos

  Romantic, Successful, Long Ago

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• Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

  John Updike

  Change, Art, Reflection

  John Updike (1991). “Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

  William Butler Yeats

  Fall, Blood, Passionate

  "The Second Coming" l. 1 (1921)

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  My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

  George Eliot

  Compassion, Joy, Suffering

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.237, 谷月社

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• It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their conviction. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their convictions.

  John Ciardi

  Courage, Men, Bravery

  John Ciardi (1972). “Manner of Speaking”

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• Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in.

  Origen

  Lying, Soldier, Battle

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• How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Dark, Racist, Drag

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• We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Philosophy, Tradition, Abandon

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev (1989). “Mikhail Gorbachev Addresses the United Nations”

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• The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Views, Voice, Political

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• I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Action, Left

  "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

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• It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

  Stanley Fish

  Philosophical, Moral, Assuming

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• Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on.

  Mira Sorvino

  Giving, Acting, Legs

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• Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.

  John Shimkus

  Hippie, Rights, Law

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• Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions of life in many cases.

  Rick Renzi

  Military, Moving, Nurse

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