Conviction Quotes
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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People who hate often do so with great conviction. What we need are more people who love with conviction.
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Nothing keeps people together like the exalted conviction that they alone are to be spared that eternal anguish of hell fire to which everyone else will be condemned.
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Be true to your own highest convictions.
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If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.
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I think, like Ronald Reagan, in another way, in a secular way, John Paul II was a great communicator, but he was also a man of deep conviction.
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I had so often sung 'Deutschland u:ber Alles' and shouted 'Heil' at the top of my lungs, that it seemed to me almost a belated act of grace to be allowed to stand as a witness in the divine court of the eternal judge and proclaim the sincerity of this conviction.
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On most lines, making a sale without making a convert does not count for much. Sales made by conviction - by advertising - are likely to bring permanent customers. People who buy through casual recommendations often do not stick.
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Conviction is a force multiplier. If you want something, claim it in your gut. The universe itself responds to your inner certainty.
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The first duty of man is to take none of the principles of conduct upon trust; to do nothing without a clear and individual conviction that it is right to be done.
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The command 'become hard! ', the deep conviction that all creators are hard, is the really distinctive sign of a Dionysian nature.
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Whatever you believe with emotion becomes reality. You always act in a manner consistent with your innermost beliefs and convictions.
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Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon Mother Earth, with certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you...
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Due to his own original special nature, the Jew cannot possess a religious institution, if for no other reason because he lacks idealism in any form, and hence belief in a hereafter is absolutely foreign to him. And a religion in the Aryan sense cannot be imagined which lacks the conviction of survival after death in some form. Indeed, the Talmud is not a book to prepare a man for the hereafter, but only for a practical and profitable life in this world.
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The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.
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The deeper men go into life, the deeper is their conviction that this life is not all. It is an unfinished symphony. A day may round out an insect's life, and a bird or a beast needs no tomorrow. Not so with him who knows that he is related to God and has felt the power of an endless life.
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Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.
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The depth of your belief and the strength of your conviction determines the power of your personality.
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How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are going to make painters by painting ourselves, and by showing the paintings of others. By working frankly from our convictions, we are going to make them work frankly from theirs.
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The literacy level at Mississippi prisons? Fifth grade. Can't read, what are you going to do? If you've got a conviction rap, what are you going to do? It's a real crisis.
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Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion.
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The deep conviction we have is that trade does lead to development, and development does lead to better human rights.
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The people who are opposing the policy of apartheid have not the courage of their convictions. They do not marry non-Europeans.
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Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that there are some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they are worth dying for. And if a person has not found something to die for, that person isn't fit to live!
