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Conviction
«I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Belief,
Conviction,
God,
Living
| Keywords:
As If, die, find out
«Many people seek after what they do not possess and are thus enslaved by the very things they want to acquire»
«It takes a disciplined person to listen to convictions which are different from their own.»
Author: Dorothy Fuldman
| About:
Conviction
«Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.»
Author: Margaret Mead
| About:
Ambition,
Conviction,
Individuality,
Willpower
| Keywords:
as a group, citizens, Citizens for, committed, doubt, group, grouped, grouping, group A, indeed, small, small change, Small World, The Group, thoughtful
«Our consciences are littered like an old attic with the junk of sheer conviction.»
Author: Wilford O. Cross
| About:
Conscience,
Conviction
| Keywords:
attic, consciences, junk, litter, littered, littering, litters, sheer
«Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Conviction
| Keywords:
convictions, except, excepted, give, give in, give or take, good, good sense, great, honor, honoring, large, nothing, pettier, petty, sense, sensed, sense an, sensing, small
«No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.»
Author: Edwin Hubbel Chapin
(Author, Clergyman, Pastor, Speaker, Writer)
| About:
Conviction,
Duty
| Keywords:
entering, enter upon, urged
«My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.»
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge
| About:
Conviction,
Mind,
Opinions
| Keywords:
adopted, immensely, sureness
«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)
| About:
Conviction,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
About me, conviction, driven, drive in, from nowhere, had, insufficient, knees, My own, nowhere, overwhelm, overwhelming, overwhelms, seemed, times, time of day, wisdom
«My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Conviction
| Keywords:
deepen, deepening, deepens, measured, sympathize, sympathized, sympathizes, sympathize with, sympathizing