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Unpaid work never commands respect; it is the paid worker who has brought to the public mind conviction of woman's worth.
I'd say that individuals are respected who stick to their convictions instead of doing whatever happens to be in fashion.
To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
If we want conservative principles to win the battle of ideas, we have to defend them openly, with passion and conviction.
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
You have to have enough conviction to stand for something. It doesn't matter if it's the opposing party or your own party.
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
For many Americans, Osama bin Laden is the paradigmatic Muslim, an absurd conviction for anyone who has lived with Muslims.
I don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction.
One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.
People who prepare false or fraudulent tax returns risk criminal prosecution and, upon conviction, substantial time in jail.
I approach this with - with an open mind and I'll do it on the basis of a deep conviction with President-elect Donald Trump.
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
Once you have a felony conviction on your record, one of the most difficult things to do is to break the cycle of recidivism.
It is not enough to have the courage of your convictions, you must also have the courage to have your convictions challenged.
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.
Every fool stands convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool. The faultier a person's judgement the firmer their convictions.
Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.
In everybody's career there comes a moment when there is slowdown but one has to have that conviction and belief in themselves.
The people who are opposing the policy of apartheid have not the courage of their convictions. They do not marry non-Europeans.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust.
It is my conviction that those who disregard the reality of Heaven will ultimately find themselves on the wrong side of history.
We have been working towards providing a clean environment to the people of India, and we are doing it out of our own conviction.
My comprehension of God comes from a deeply felt conviction of a superior intelligence that reveals itself in the knowable world.
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting.
One common denominator of super-affluent alpha men is the conviction, unchallenged every day, that the world revolves around them.
Personal convictions are not politics. Personal convictions, if they become the subject of a group conviction, they become a cult.
Without conviction that you can make change happen, you will not act, even if you see the vision. Your feelings will hold you back.
Even when you err, it is a thousand times better to err out of conviction than to hide your true opinion to respect some authority.
There's nothing I hate more than someone who speaks in the draft room with absolute conviction, but they have nothing to back it up.
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.
A mental picturing of that which we want, with the complete acceptance and the conviction that it is ours now, will bring it quickly.
To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.
Make sure you have that conviction to do what you know is right, and once you have it, don't let skeptics distract you from your path.
The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.
Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing.
By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.
Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time!
Fast-paced from start to finish, 'The Honourable Schoolboy' is fired by le Carre's conviction regarding evil done and its consequences.
I've had a growing conviction that Congress is not operating as it should. There is much too much partisanship and not enough progress.
We live our thoughts and manifest them in our attitudes toward ourselves and others. We cannot live beyond our thoughts and convictions.
Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.
I think honesty is an important thing when writing a song. If you can't sing it with conviction, then no-one else is going to believe it.
By the mind one is bound; by the mind one is freed. ... He who asserts with strong conviction: "I am not bound, I am free," becomes free.
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.