"Convictions are not merely beliefs we hold; they are those beliefs that hold us in their grip."

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Source : Albert Mohler (2012). “The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters”, p.16, Baker Books

Albert Mohler

#Belief Quotes #Conviction Quotes

“I only eat things that you don't have to kill.”
“It is now the fall of my second year in Paris. I was sent here for a reason I have not yet been able to fathom. I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. A year ago, six months ago, i thought I was an artist. I no longer think about it. I am. There are no more books to be written, thank God.”
“A sneer is the weapon of the weak. Like other devil's weapons, it is always cunningly ready to our hand, and there is more poison in the handle than in the point.”
“Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.”

Source : "OSCARS Q&A: Sally Field". Interview with David Mermelstein, deadline.com. December 12, 2012.
“Yes, I have actually mined coal, and distilled liquor, as well as seen a girl in a pink dress, and seen her take it off. I am 54 years old, weigh 220 pounds, and look like the chief dispatcher of a long-distance driving concern. I am a registered Democrat. I drink.”

Source : James M. Cain (1982). “The Butterfly”, Random House Digital, Inc.
“I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers.”
“The beauty of having nothing to lose, is you learn the beauty of having everything to gain. This is where hope lives. Hope canâ€™t be taken. Hope canâ€™t be lost. Hope canâ€™t be broken. When we are boiled down to what we are as people. We are not love, because we hope to love, we are not money or who we hold, because we hope to have and to hold. We are not religion or God, because we enter into belief in the hope we get something back for ourselves. We are not a soul. We are hope.”
“You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.”

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