Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Thomas Carlyle

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• Morality covers our conduct, not what goes on inside our heads.

  

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• I've set the model of showing fighters how they should conduct their business.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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• All conviction - and so, necessarily, conversion - is based on the motor and emotional aspects of the mind.

  

  T. E. Hulme
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• Therefore only an utterly senseless person can fail to know that our characters are the result of our conduct.

  

  Aristotle
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  • Characters
  • Result

• Shattered dreams, worthless years, here I am encased in a hollow shell. Life began, then was done, now I stare into a cold and empty well.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Life
  • Done
  • Years

• It's a testament to why he's been here 11 years. I think this one was a little more intense. I just felt the conviction behind it. . . . When he says it a certain way, it has some meaning behind it and today it felt different.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Different
  • Why
  • Today

• The conviction: I will not tolerate this age. The freedom: the freedom to act on my conviction. And I will act. No one else has both the conviction and the freedom. Many agree with me, have the conviction, but will not act. Some act, assassinate, bomb, burn, etc., but they are the crazies. Crazy acts by crazy people. But what if one, sober, reasonable, and honorable man should act, and act with perfect sobriety, reason, and honor? Then you have the beginning of a new age. We shall start a new order of things.

  

  Walker Percy
  • People
  • Age
  • Freedom

• I think it is not only important that people go to the Anne Frank House to see the secret annex, but also that they are helped to realise that people are also persecuted today because of their race, religion or political convictions.

  

  Otto Frank
  • People
  • Important
  • Today

• Grow up? Get herself straightened out? Her mind reeled from the verbal battering. No matter what she did, her father would tell her she was wrong. Worthless. Undeserving.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Up
  • Mind
  • She

• I think it is very important for you to do two things: act on your temporary conviction as if it was a real conviction; and when you realize that you are wrong, correct course very quickly

  

  Andy Grove
  • Important
  • Real
  • Conviction

• The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • Government
  • Golf
  • Conviction

• Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Truths
  • Conduct

• For thousands of years, we Jews have been nourished and sustained by a yearning for our historic land. I, like many others, was raised with a deep conviction that the day would never come when we would have to relinquish parts of the land of our forefathers. I believed and to this day still believe in our people's eternal and historic right to this entire land.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • People
  • Believe
  • Deep

• Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.

  

  Margery Allingham
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Happy

• People who hate often do so with great conviction. What we need are more people who love with conviction.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Hate
  • Conviction

• I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Despair
  • Conviction
  • Intense

• It is my conviction that in general women are more snobbish and class conscious than men and that these ignoble traits are a product of men's attitude toward women and women's passive acceptance of this attitude.

  

  Mary Barnett Gilson
  • Men
  • Women
  • Attitude

• I should have the courage of my lack of convictions.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Courage
  • Should
  • Conviction

• The deep conviction we have is that trade does lead to development, and development does lead to better human rights.

  

  Pierre Pettigrew
  • Development
  • Conviction
  • Human Rights

• I suppose I like certainty as much as anyone else, but I also feel that the hidden costs are high, that we pay a heavy price for our convictions. This is a human issue as well as a writing issue - at least in the personal essay as I practice it. Any real essayist knows that certainty is an editorial decision, arrived at not through conviction but through suppression, the denial of a whole range of possibilities, of alternatives that we jettison, sometimes necessarily, in order to steady the ship.

  

  Charles D'Ambrosio
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Decision

• People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Heart
  • Speak

• To form a new Government, requires infinite care, and unbounded attention; for if the foundation is badly laid the superstructure must be bad.

  

  George Washington
  • Attention
  • Government
  • Care

• Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Conviction
  • Conduct
  • Worthless