(503 quotes found)
“Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.”
Harry Emerson Fosdick
“Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty”
Jeremy Collier
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
William Butler Yeats
“The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence”
Thomas Wolfe
“You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which ''clicks.''”
Florence Scovel Shinn
“Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.”
Dag Hammarskjold
“Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions which move with him like flies on a summer day”
Bertrand Russell
“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.”
Michael Caine
“You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.”
George Crane
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
Blaise Pascal
