(494 quotes found)
“People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it- walk.”
Ayn Rand
“He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.”
Louisa May Alcott
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
William Butler Yeats
“It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.”
Muhammad Ali
“Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.”
Dag Hammarskjold
“It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.”
John Steinbeck
“What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?”
Joseph Conrad
“You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.”
George Crane
“You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which ''clicks.''”
Florence Scovel Shinn
“We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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