Conviction Quotes - Page 35

• Unpaid work never commands respect; it is the paid worker who has brought to the public mind conviction of woman's worth.

  Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch

  Mind, Command, Workers

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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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• It is my deepest conviction that the children should be seen and heard as our most treasured assets.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, Assets, Should

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• What is courage? It is the ability to be strong in trust, in conviction, in obedience. To be courageous is to step out in faith - to trust and obey, no matter what.

  Kay Arthur

  Strong, Matter, Steps

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• There's one thing we need above everything else; it's something we don't talk about these days. We need a mighty avalanche of conviction of sin.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Avalanches, Needs, Sin

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• You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art.

  Maya Lin

  Art, Brain, Matter

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• Active waiting means present fully to the moment, in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want to be present to it.

  Henri Nouwen

  Mean, Waiting, Want

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• One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Opinion, Hundred

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• God will never plant the seed of his life upon the soil of a hard, unbroken spirit. He will only plant that seed where the conviction of his spirit has brought brokenness, where the soil has been watered with the tears of repentance as well as the tears of joy.

  Alan Redpath

  Joy, Tears, Unbroken

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• Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Suits, Protest, Humane

  "The trumpet of conscience".

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• It's your life - but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else . . . you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Integrity, Important, True And False

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.111, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world.

  J. C. Ryle

  Jesus, Fall, Men

  J.C RYLE, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS”, Lulu.com

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• Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mother of great deeds.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Deeds, Have Faith

  Swami Vivekananda (1997). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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• Leadership implies movement toward something and convictions provide that direction.

  Don Shula

  Leadership, Movement

  Don Shula (1995). “Everyone's a Coach: You Can Inspire Anyone to be a Winner”, Zondervan

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• The Lord said: 'Without Me you can do nothing' (Jn. 15:5). So for the duration of our life, every day and at every moment, we must keep unchanged in our heart the feeling, conviction and disposition, that on no occasion can we allow ourselves to think of relying on ourselves and trusting ourselves.

  Lorenzo Scupoli

  Christian, Heart, Thinking

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• The camera or the microphone in the booth is merciless. If you don't believe what you're saying, it hears it. If you don't believe it, it sees it in your eyes, it hears it in your voice that there isn't the conviction there.

  Riz Ahmed

  Believe, Eye, Voice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My music is just about story telling. I don't have much to say, and I'm not trying to change anyone's mind. I'm just singing through conviction about what I love and what I care about, starting with the very small.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Mind, Singing, Trying

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• To be in love involves the most irresistible conviction that one will go on being in love until one dies, and that possession of the beloved will confer, not merely frequent ecstasies, but settled, fruitful, deep-rooted, lifelong happiness.

  C. S. Lewis

  Being In Love, Goes On, Beloved

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• I wish to show those who deny us Patriotism that we know how to die for our country and convictions.

  Jose Rizal

  Country, Wish, Deny

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• Three characteristics a work of fiction must possess in order to be successful:
  
  1. It must have a precise and suspenseful plot.
  
  2. The author must feel a passionate urge to write it.
  
  3. He must have the conviction, or at least the illusion, that he is the only one who can handle this particular theme.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Writing, Successful, Order

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Raphael Soyer (1981). “Lost in America”, Doubleday Books

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• CONVICTIONS are lessons learned from experiences we’d never want to go through again, but wouldn’t trade for anything in the world.

  Mark Batterson

  Lesson Learned, World, Lessons

  Twitter post from Jan 08, 2015

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• In the end, leaders are defined by the convictions they hold.

  George W. Bush

  Leader, Ends, Defined

  Presidential Library Dedication Address, delivered 25 April 2013, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas

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• One can feel the urge, the need to give, coming from within him. He is such a pure and true person. It’s my deepest, most heartfelt conviction that Michael Jackson is a good person, a fine young man with an incredible burden - responsibility - to carry on his shoulders.

  Marcel Marceau

  Responsibility, Men, Giving

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• The modern world detests authority but worships relevance. Our Christian conviction is that the Bible has both authority and relevance, and that the secret of both is Jesus Christ

  John Stott

  Christian, Jesus, Secret

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