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conviction
«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.»
«It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.»
Author: Muhammad Ali
(Activist, Boxer)
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Belief
| Keywords:
affirmations, conviction, repetition, repetitions
«Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
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Hope
| Keywords:
conviction, regardless, sense, turn, turns, turn out
«If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.»
Author: William Barclay
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accepts, attained, christ, conviction, doubts, fights, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Lord's table, unthinkingly
«Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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cheerfully, completely, conviction, religious
«Only the person having firm conviction and iron volition can attain strength and energy. At no stage of Karma does he ever hesitate.»
«I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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Conviction,
Wisdom
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About me, conviction, driven, drive in, from nowhere, had, insufficient, knees, My own, nowhere, overwhelm, overwhelming, overwhelms, seemed, times, time of day, wisdom
«Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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Patriotism
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Born, conviction, countries, country, patriotism, superior
«No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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affords, conviction, library, public libraries, public library, Public place, striking, vanity