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Conviction Quotes
"Constant repetition carries conviction."
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"Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct."
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"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all."
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"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures."
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"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."
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"The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable."
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"I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty."
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"Mix a conviction with a man and something happens."
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"If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself."
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"I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect."
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"Our consciences are littered like an old attic with the junk of sheer conviction."
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"You have to believe what you're saying if you're going to convince me. I just can't break that rule, even if I want to."
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"There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states."
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"Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction."
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"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."
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"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."
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"You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions."
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"Decide on what you think is right and stick to it."
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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."
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"When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction."
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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."
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"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library."
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"It is better to believe than doubt."
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"If the Lord is for you, which He unquestionably is, who else other than yourself would dare to stop you from proclaiming your true destiny?"
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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."
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"Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct."
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"Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I rise in behalf of the State of New York to propose a nomination with which the country and the Republican party can grandly win."
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"It is our beliefs, more than our experiences, that determine life's possibilities."
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"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."
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"The Petersons have not come forward in the press. Apparently they feel the media bears a large responsibility for Scott's conviction. It may be a while before we hear anything from them."
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"The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously."
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"Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination."
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"The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting."
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"Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for."
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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."
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"I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence."
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"God desires that through us the ones who do not know him will be convinced."
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"The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle."
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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."
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"When you lack the courage to publicly defend biblical truth, it is a clear testimony that you lack the Holy Spirit. The gift of the Holy Spirit is a gift of no fear."
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"If you truly have faith in your convictions, then your convictions should be able to stand criticism and testing."
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"We tend to listen to the people who believe in their own words as opposed to those who don't. When we feel their conviction, they earn our buy-in."
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"The problem with holiness is that once we look into the face of it we are no longer capable of taking that which is odious and filthy and somehow pretending that it's translucent and clean. In other words, we have to do one of the most revolting things possible; we have to face ourselves."
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"A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets."
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"The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them. It is so, so cumbersome to believe anything. And it isn't cool."
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"Focus on faith and grow your roots strong and deep so no one can make you believe in something that is not good for your soul."
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"It's not atheists who get stuck in my caw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for awhile. We all must pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we... But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as means of transportation."
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"The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's convictions - not obstinately or defiantly (these are gestures of defensiveness not courage) nor as a gesture of retaliation but simply because these are what one believes."
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"The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation."
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