Conviction Quotes - Page 34

• Convictions no doubt have to be modified or expanded to meet changing conditions but ... to be a reliable political leader sooner or later your anchors must hold fast where other men's drag.

  Margot Asquith

  Men, Anchors, Leader

  Margot Asquith (1934). “More Or Less about Myself”

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• Just as long as newspapers and magazines are controlled by men, every woman upon them must write articles which are reflections of men's ideas. As long as that continues, women's ideas and deepest convictions will never get before the public.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Writing, Reflection, Men

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• Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable.

  Epictetus

  Death, Evil, Use

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.77

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• If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others.

  Blaise Pascal

  May, Praise, Disregard

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• There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.

  Agnes Repplier

  Book, Heart, Men

  Agnes Repplier (1894). “In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers”

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• convictions ... are always getting in the way of opportunities.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Opportunity, Principles, Way

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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• Leaps over walls - especially when taken late in life - can be extremely perilous. To leap successfully, you need a sense of humor, the spirit of adventure and an unshakable conviction that what you are leaping over is an obstacle upon which you would otherwise fall down.

  Monica Baldwin

  Wall, Fall, Taken

  Monica Baldwin (2016). “I Leap Over The Wall - Contrasts And Impressions After Twenty-Eight Years In A Convent”, p.7, Read Books Ltd

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• Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But those they have are great and burning. The greatest is their conviction that without freedom human life is not worth living.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Passion, Emotional, Burning

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher “Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life”

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• If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions.

  Julia Child

  Flip, Ifs

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• Poetry interprets in two ways: it interprets by expressing, with magical felicity, the physiognomy and movements of the outward world; and it interprets by expressing, with inspired conviction, the ideas and laws of the inward world of man's moral and spiritual nature. In other words, poetry is interpretative both by having natural magic in it, and by having moral profundity.

  Matthew Arnold

  Spiritual, Men, Law

  Matthew Arnold (1875). “Essays in Criticism”, p.128, London : [s.n.]

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• The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.

  Jane Addams

  Principles, Belief, Steadfastness

  Jane Addams (2010). “Peace and Bread in Time of War”, p.86, University of Illinois Press

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• The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.

  Hannah Arendt

  Knowledge, Men, Earth

  Hannah Arendt (1973). “The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Lying, Generations, Stealing

  Beryl Bainbridge (1981). “A weekend with Claude”, Gerald Duckworth & Company

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• ... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.

  Margaret Deland

  Arrogant, Conceit, Emancipation

  Margaret Deland (1894). “Sidney”

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• Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Choices, Matter, Belief

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• The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.

  Edith Hamilton

  Bible, Men, Records

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• Public opinion, - a tyrant, sitting in the dark, wrapt up in mystification and vague terrors of obscurity; deriving power no one knows from whom ... - but irresistible in its power to quell thought, to repress action, to silence conviction.

  Harriet Martineau

  Dark, Tyrants, Silence

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.138

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• I never overcame my conviction that writing for commercial television was a kind of prostitution.

  Helene Hanff

  Writing, Television, Kind

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• Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Book, Sophie, Socialist

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.601, Delphi Classics

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• Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader - the common purpose. The best executives put this common purpose clearly before their group. While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others, the ability to make purpose articulate. And then that common purpose becomes the leader.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Leadership, Common Purpose, Followers

  Mary Parker Follett (2013). “Freedom and Co-ordination (RLE: Organizations): Lectures in Business Organization”, p.55, Routledge

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• While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom, there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Leadership, Depth, Share

  Mary Parker Follett (2013). “Freedom and Co-ordination (RLE: Organizations): Lectures in Business Organization”, p.55, Routledge

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• I don't think I'm a risk-taker. I don't think any entrepreneur is. I think that's one of those myths of commerce. The new entrepreneur is more values-led: you do what looks risky to other people because that's what your convictions tell you to do. Other companies would say I'm taking risks, but that's my path - it doesn't feel like risk to me.

  Anita Roddick

  Business, Thinking, People

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• Any positive thinker is compelled to see everything in the light of his own convictions.

  Antoinette Brown Blackwell

  Light, Principles, Belief

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• So long as human history continues, we will face the perennial challenge of realizing, maintaining and strengthening peace through dialogue, of making dialogue the sure and certain path to peace. We must uphold and proclaim this conviction without cease, whatever coldly knowing smiles or cynical critiques may greet us.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Knowing, Long, Cynical

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• Today, we're taking a break from the concerns and the bustle of the work-a-day world. But we're also making a new beginning... Let us renew our faith that as free men and women we still have the power to better our lives, and let us resolve to face the challenges of the new year holding that conviction firmly in our hearts. That, after all, is our greatest strength and our greatest gift as Americans.

  Ronald Reagan

  New Year, New Beginnings, Heart

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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