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.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Morality
  • Inside
  • Conduct

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

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Business
  • Model
  • Conduct

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

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Mind
  • Emotional
  • Conviction

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

  

  Aristotle
  • Person
  • 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
  • Ultimate

• 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

• Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us.

  

  David Wolpe
  • Universe
  • Conviction
  • Greater

• When I was a kid, I was a bit of a space geek. I loved the space program and all things NASA. I would read books about our solar system; I had pictures of the Space Shuttle on my bedroom wall. And yes, I even went to Space Camp.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Book
  • Kids
  • Wall

• There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love.

  

  Mike Nichols
  • Falling
  • Discovering
  • Astonishment

• Live loath'd and long, Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites, Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears, You fools of fortune, trencher friends, time flies Cap and knee slaves, vapors, and minute jacks.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Fool
  • Slave
  • Smooth

• Life. As solid and as strong as a rock one minute, then hanging by a thread the next.

  

  Alan Titchmarsh
  • Life
  • Rock

• Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Conviction
  • Conduct
  • Worthless