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I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity

I would replace the quality of sincerity with honesty, since one can hold a conviction sincerely without examining it, while honesty would require that one subject one's convictions to frequent scrutiny.

I write from a thorough conviction that it is the duty of me, and with the belief that, after every drawback and shortcoming, I do my best, all things considered--that is for me, and, so being, the not being listened to by one human creature would, I hope, in nowise affect me.

Joy begins with our convictions about spiritual truths we're willing to bet our lives on, and truths that are lodged so deeply within us that they produce a settled assurance about God.

Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time!

Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles

Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything.

Knowing exactly what you want to do, with unwavering conviction, is the spark that generates everything.

My conviction is that the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel.

Laila remembered Mammy telling Babi once that she had married a man who had no convictions. Mammy didn't understand. She didn't understand that if she looked into a mirror, she would find the one unfailing conviction of his life looking right back at her.

Miracles arise from conviction. Be convicted about these things: Miracles can happen. Miracles do happen. Love makes them happen.

My dad always, he helped me by not helping me. He always said, being a producer, it was all about conviction.

Listen to the advice of others, but follow only what you understand and can unite in your own feeling. Be firm, be meek, but follow your own convictions. It is better to be nothing than an echo of other painters.

Love is an indescribable sensation - perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude.

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

Man's will, sustained by an indominable conviction, is much more powerful than material forces that seem insurmountable.

Neither the intensity of your feelings nor the certainty of your convictions is any assurance that you are right.

No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites.

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

My political views have definitely changed over the years. Maybe a better way of saying it is that I have grown into my convictions; the values and ideas of radical feminism that I started to articulate in my late teens feel more internalized or "second nature.

My sad conviction is that people can only agree about what they're not really interested in.

No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.

No one nowadays talks about the absolute, not even people with firm and deep religious convictions. The whole Hegelian project has no resonance for us, as it once had for the Germans in the 1820s and the British and Americans around the 1880s.

Now, no one expects us to agree on everything, whether in Juneau or in Washington. But we are expected to govern with integrity and goodwill and clear convictions and a servant's heart.

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.

Nature protects us in our uttermost losses by a density through which conviction is slow to penetrate.

Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.

No Legislature can really destroy a religious conviction, except by exterminating its holders. It is historically too late to do that, and we shall live to see the drowned Egyptians on the seashore even yet.

One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.

One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.

One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.

Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.

Our belief in God is not blind faith. Belief is having a firm conviction something is true, not hoping it's true.

Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.

One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.

Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father.

Political activists of all stripes are usually a wacky bunch, and never more so than in a system like Britain's, where power is effected via the quiescence of the electorate as much as its convictions.

PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.

One of my pet theories is that readers have built-in BS detectors that enable them to recognize insincerity in writers. David [Halberstam] was sincerity to the core. He believed in what he wrote, and that conviction conveyed itself to readers.

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.

... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.

Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.

Sexiness is about being an individual and having conviction about what that is.

Repentance, however difficult to be practiced, is, if it be explained without superstition, easily understood. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God.

Repetition of the same chant, the same incantations, the same affirmations leads to belief, and once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.

Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction.

So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit the validity of our new-found convictions.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.