| "Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction." »Julian Weber Gordon |
| "The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously." »Nicholas Butler |
| "We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves that is our only commitment to others." »John F. Kennedy |
| "The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved." »Victor Hugo |
| "A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures." »Daniel Webster |
| "Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction." »Blaise Pascal |
| "The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle." »G. C. Lichtenberg |
| "Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out." »Vaclav Havel |
| "To linger in the observation of things other than the self implies a profound conviction of their worth." »Charles-Damian Boulogne |
| "The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on." »Walter Lippmann |
| "I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day." »Abraham Lincoln |
| "The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time." »Franklin P. Adams |
| "Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room." »Heywood |
| "Things fall apart the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity." »William Butler Yeats |
| "Three things are necessary to make every man great,every nation great1.conviction of the powers of goodness.2.Absence of jealousy and suspicion.3.Helping all who are trying to be and do good." »Swami Vivekananda |
| "I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people-nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations-have the will to meet the trials that these times impose." »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi |
| "What makes the difference between a Nation that is truly great and one that is merely rich and powerful It is the simple things that make the difference. Honesty, knowing right from wrong, openness, self-respect, and the courage of conviction." »David L Boren |
| "The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else." »John W. Gardner |
| "According to conviction, I am not simply what I am doing now. I am also what I have done, and my conventionally edited version of my past is made to seem almost more the real me than what I am at this moment. For what I am seems so fleeting and intangible, but what I was is fixed and final. It is the firm basis for predictions of what I will be in the future, and so it comes about that I am more closely identified with what no longer exists than with what actually is" »Alan B. Watts |
| "The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." »Victor Hugo |
| "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God." »Albert Einstein |
| "If you can impress any man with an absorbing conviction of the supreme importance of some moral or religious doctrine if you can make him believe that those who reject that doctrine are doomed to eternal perdition if you then give that man power, and by means of his ignorance blind him to the ulterior consequences of his own act,-he will infallibly persecute those who deny his doctrine." »Henry Thomas Buckle |
| "He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder." »Albert Einstein |
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