Alexander Hamilton  - Quotes

 He who stands for nothing will fall for anything. 

Tags: bravery   conviction   ignorance   intelligence   stand   strength   stupidity   wisdom     


Friedrich Nietzsche  - Quotes

 convictions might be more dangerous enemies of the truth than lies. 

Tags: convictions   existentialism   lies   truth     
Jane Austen  - Quotes

 To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either. 

Tags: conviction   persuasion   yield     


Step Up 2: The Streets  - Quotes

 
[from trailer]
Chase Collins:
She has more talent, more conviction than anyone else I know!
 

Tags: Conviction Quotes     
Rabindranath Tagore  - Quotes

 Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. 

Tags: aspiration   assurance   conviction   inspirational     
Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War  - Quotes

 former ambassador to Saudi Arabia:
One of the more ironic effects of the attack on Iraq, was to buttress other countries in the conviction that, the infamous remark by an Indian general after the first Gulf War when he said, the lesson of this war is that if you have to fight the United States you better have nuclear weapons.
 

Deleted Scenes  - Quotes

 Josh:
Say what you will about Gorgeous, but I happen to agree with his conviction that you haven't lived until you've made another man's fiancee weep after orgasming for the first time in her life.
 

Tags: Will Quotes   Conviction Quotes   Time Quotes     
Abraham Kuyper  - Quotes

 When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must, at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your faith. 

Tags: activism   conviction     
Rollo May  - Quotes

 Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over the external sanctions because he has no fundamental assurance that his own choices have any sanction of their own 

Tags: conviction   existentialism   morality     
Malcolm X  - Quotes

 Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth. 

Tags: convictions   intelligence   knowledge   truth     
Thomas Carlyle  - Quotes

 Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct. 

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Gordon B. Hinckley  - Quotes

 Let our voices be heard. I hope they will not be shrill voices, but, I hope we shall speak with such conviction that those to whom we speak shall know of the strength of our feeling and the sincerity of our efforts.  

Tags: conviction   courage     
Paul Celan  - Quotes

 rush of pine scent (once upon a time),



the unlicensed conviction

there ought to be another way

of saying

this.
 

Tags: conviction   pine   poetry   saying     
Toba Beta  - Quotes

 Conviction's contagious as virus spreads. 

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