#conviction

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

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My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada. ↗

— Preston Manning

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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

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Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

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Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in. ↗

— Origen

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The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

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One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you. ↗

— Faith Baldwin

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Constant repetition carries conviction. ↗

— Robert Collier

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What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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