Pastoral Resources

My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you.

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

An indictment is not a conviction.

It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

Constant repetition carries conviction.

Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I rise in behalf of the State of New York to propose a nomination with which the country and the Republican party can grandly win.

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.

Through these adversities, Israel has endured with continued strength, conviction, and faith.

We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must.

The Petersons have not come forward in the press. Apparently they feel the media bears a large responsibility for Scott's conviction. It may be a while before we hear anything from them.

Many hard comments have been made on my efforts in India from the side of the Congress party, yet I feel content in the deep conviction that the offer I traveled 22,000 miles to discuss with Indian leaders was a real contribution to a solution of our differences.

Our consciences are littered like an old attic with the junk of sheer conviction.