Conviction Quotes - Page 8

• The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

  James Russell Lowell

  Faith, Color, Weather

  Carl Schurz, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Speech A”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Men, Order, Grace

  Charles Horton Cooley (1964). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.335, Transaction Publishers

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• The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions

  Valentina Tereshkova

  Change, Party, Essence

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• For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Successful, Rights, Profound

  "Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination". Book by N.D. Arora, 2010.

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• No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hope, Vanity, Expectations

  'The Rambler' no. 106 (23 March 1751)

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• Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have remover their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Bible, God

  Notes on the State of Virginia, query 18 (1781 - 1785)

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• I am certain about what I will never do - but not about what my art will render.

  Odilon Redon

  Art, Certain

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• Cezanne is one of the most liberal artists I have ever seen... he grants that everyone may be as honest and as true to nature from their convictions; he doesn't believe that everyone should see alike.

  Mary Cassatt

  Believe, Artist, Cezanne

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• I am able to make a contribution... Let me repeat my convictions, I can make a contribution to American painting.

  Morris Graves

  Able, Painting, Let Me

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• The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot.

  Eric Maisel

  Art, Enemy, Doe

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all up or go abstract or take up photography.

  E. J. Hughes

  Photography, Giving, Serious

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• One's true worth as a human being is not a matter of outward appearance or title, but derives rather from the breadth of one's spirit. Everything comes down to faith and conviction. It is what is in one's heart, and the substance of one's actions that count.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Heart, Titles, Substance

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• Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Sad, Religious

  Pensees no. 894 (1670 ed.)

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• Constant repetition carries conviction.

  Robert Collier

  Positive, Mma, Affirmation

  Robert Collier (2010). “The Life Magnet”, p.265, Penguin

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• The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

  William Butler Yeats

  Passionate, Doubt And Certainty, Anarchy

  "The Second Coming" l. 1 (1921)

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• Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, but a sure trust and confidence that Christ died for my sins, that He loved me and gave Himself for me.

  John Wesley

  Love, World, Sin

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.50

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• The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

  Walter Lippmann

  Inspirational, Change, Success

  New York Herald Tribune 14 Apr. 1945

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• My conviction is that those fights need to be fought right now and can be won. And if in fact we have finite political capital, energy, resources, we need to win those fights.

  Barack Obama

  Fighting, Winning, Political

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• Having convictions can be defined as being so thoroughly convinced that Christ and His Word are both objectively true and relationally meaningful that you act on your beliefs regardless of the consequences.

  Josh McDowell

  Meaningful, Belief, Christ

  Josh McDowell (2003). “Belief Matters Leader's Guide”, Tyndale House Pub

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• May your convictions be deep, your love real, and your desires earnest

  Charles Spurgeon

  Real, Desire, May

  Charles Spurgeon (2001). “Morning & Evening”, Whitaker House

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• We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Hope, Recovery, Carpe Diem

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• A belief is something you will argue about. A conviction is something you will die for.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Epic, Belief, Arguing

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• The knowledge and spiritual conviction we receive from the Holy Ghost are the result of revelation.

  David A. Bednar

  Spiritual, Ghost, Revelations

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• You can trust the Bible. You will never be a great Christian until you come to the unshakable conviction that the Bible is the Word of God.

  Adrian Rogers

  Christian, Unshakable, Word Of God

  Adrian Rogers, Steve Rogers (2012). “What Every Christian Ought to Know”, p.25, B&H Publishing Group

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• The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Inspirational, Country, Believe

  Nods and Becks (1944) p. 74

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