Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid a coward knows when you are not.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts and to stand by their convictions even to the very death.

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.

I went to England in the '70s and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts.

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.