"It is my deepest conviction that the children should be seen and heard as our most treasured assets."
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"The pressure of show business is on all the time and show business is a fickle business. Whatever is popular now - that's all that counts. I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why."
"Speak out tirelessly with conviction."
"Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go."
"The most good you can do for yourself spiritually is to live your life with total love, conviction, and purpose."
"Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another."
"I have no faith at all. I only hold convictions."
"With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least ten per cent of your net worth in that stock"
"Now, no one expects us to agree on everything, whether in Juneau or in Washington. But we are expected to govern with integrity and goodwill and clear convictions and a servant's heart."
"Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion."
"I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions."
"She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themselves… They belonged to her her and were her own, and she entertained the conviction that she had a right to them and they they concerned no one but herself."
"To accuse me of being too inflexible is poppycock."
"He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him"
"It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium."
"There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness."
"Certainly within any decadent period, you would probably find the purest expressions of conviction, and I do not see that in many of the people I know."
"Convictions are prisons."
"The command 'become hard! ', the deep conviction that all creators are hard, is the really distinctive sign of a Dionysian nature."
"Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction."