There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls by God we go and we do the best that we can.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

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.

The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know or to admit the change and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.