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

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"If you are willing to kill for your beliefs, you are a murderer; if you are willing to die for your beliefs, you are a martyr."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't."

Michael Caine, English Actor

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"I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state."

Jim Garrison, American Public Servant

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"We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must."

Jim Cramer, American Businessman

Conviction, Direction, Wrong

"If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction."

Alex Chilton, American Musician

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"The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable."

Charles E. Trevelyan, British Politician

Conviction, Today

"A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets."

Arthur C. Clarke, English Writer

Conviction, Faith, Truth, Collision, Integrity

"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, American Sociologist

Conviction, Grace, Man, May

"There's Eddie's conviction and his lyrics and his ideals, and he can just rock straight out. His vocals are incredible. And we all are really competent musicians."

Mike McCready, American Musician

Conviction, Ideals, Musicians

"It is better to believe than doubt."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Conviction, Belief, Doubt, Faith, Mind

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"If you are willing to kill for your beliefs, you are a murderer; if you are willing to die for your beliefs, you are a martyr."

"I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't."

"I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state."

"We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must."

"If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction."

"The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable."

"A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets."

"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."

"There's Eddie's conviction and his lyrics and his ideals, and he can just rock straight out. His vocals are incredible. And we all are really competent musicians."

"It is better to believe than doubt."

Explore more quotes by William Butler Yeats

"The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober."

"A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught."

"I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love."

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"If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise."

"The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart."

"All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions."

"Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!"

"One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end."