“Only the person having firm conviction and iron volition can attain strength and energy. At no stage of Karma does he ever hesitate.”
Rig Veda
“A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.”
Ralph Nader
“Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength of character, stick-to-itiveness, pugnaciousness, backbone, and intestinal fortitude. They are mandatory for anyone who wants to get to and stay at the top.”
D. A. Benton
“Kerry had an opportunity in the debates to show the American people his strength and conviction and to lay out his plans, and people have responded very positively to that. So we see trends nationally moving in our direction and trends in battleground states moving towards us as well.”
Mark Mellman
“The strength only came later. That was the conviction of a filmmaker. The strength came from my belief in the script.”
Deepa Mehta
“People will see what a man of integrity (Ashcroft) is, a man of strength, a man of conviction. They have concerns, and will raise them in a partisan manner, but we are very confident he will be in good shape. Sen. Ashcroft is going to receive a fair hearing in the Senate.”
Ari Fleischer
“There's a conviction that oil and energy prices will stay high, which is why you see Canadian energy-related stocks doing quite well even if energy prices aren't doing much.”
Stephen Gauthier