Dont say yes to please

A ‘No’ uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.

Gandhi

stand on the shoulders of yesterday's convictions...to see todays's

Often the convictions of one generation are the rejects of the next. That does not deny the possibility that, as time goes on, we shall accumulate some body of valid conclusions. But it does mean that we can acheive only by accumulation, that wisdon is to be gained only as we stand upon the shoulders of those who have gone before. Just as in science, we cannot advance except as we take over what we inherit, and in statecraft no generation can safely start at scratch, so personal, basic beliefs must be slowly built from our experience, but also from a study of the experience and conclusions of others.


- Learned Hand

discipline to listen and honour

It takes a disciplined person to listen to convictions which are different from their own.

Dorothy Fuldman

stand up for what u think is right

When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted.

rashaski Eleanor Roosevelt quotes

what brings beauty!!

Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face
Honore de Balzac quotes

walk your road

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it- walk.

Ayn Rand

conviction

Never, "for the sake of peace and quiet," deny your own experience or convictions

Dag Hammarskjold quotes