#convict

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions. ↗

— John McCain

#consensus #convictions #debated #differences #durable

When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising. ↗

— John McCarthy

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A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#convictions #even #kindness #made #many

I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions. ↗

— Frank Murphy

#convictions #enjoys #estate #first #fourteenth

Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#awareness #beyond #cause #conviction #find

This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity. ↗

— Lech Walesa

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Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves. ↗

— Earl Warren

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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#conviction #full #intensity #lack #passionate

Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#amusement #anymore #certainty #convictions #destiny