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Convictions are the mainsprings of action the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.

Bishop Francis Kelly
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Convictions are the mainsprings of action the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.

Bishop Francis Kelly
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I have the courage of my convictions.

Brigitte Bardot
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If you truly have faith in your convictions, then your convictions should be able to stand criticism and testing.

DaShanne Stokes
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(Conviction) is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only by ignoring the radical describers of his environment or by hating them as convinced men have hated say Darwin and Freud as agents of some devil.

John Ciardi
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Yet none of these things gave him confidence. All they gave him was egotism, which is less the conviction of one's worth than the desire for that conviction.

Jetta Carleton, The Moonflower Vine
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If you ask a conservative for a statement of his political convictions, he may well say that he has none, and that the greatest heresy of modernity is precisely to see politics as a matter of convictions as though one could recuperate, at the level of political purpose, the consoling certainty which once was granted by religious faith. In another sense, however, conservatism does rest in a system of belief, and is opposed as much to the theory as to the practice of socialist and liberal politics.

Roger Scruton, Conservative Texts: An Anthology
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If I tell some one that I love him – as I may have told a hundred others – my words will convey nothing to him; but the silence which will ensue, if I do indeed love him, will make clear in what depths lie the roots of my love, and will in its turn give birth to a conviction, that shall itself be silent; and in the course of a lifetime, this silence and this conviction will never again be the same. …

Maurice Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the humble
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I love an opposition that has convictions.

Frederick the Great
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Our greatest challenge today...is to couple conviction with doubt. By conviction, I mean some pragmatically developed faith, trust, or centeredness; and by doubt I mean openness to the ongoing changeability, mystery, and fallibility of the conviction.

Kirk J. Schneider
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