Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Each well-born soul must win what it deserves.

You don’t have to depend on any material possessions, they depend on you, you create them, you own the one and only tool of production.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.

What you are is what you have been. What you will be is what you do now.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

The secret of success is conviction and persistence.

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

An irresistible passion that would induce me to believe in innate ideas and the truth of prophecy has decided my career. I have always loved liberty with the enthusiasm which actuates the religious man with the passion of a lover and with the conviction of a geometrician.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.

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

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.