Conviction Quote by Charles Horton Cooley

It is natural to every man to wish for distinction, and the praise of those who can confer honor by their praise, in spite…

— Sydney Smith

A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.

— Lord Chesterfield

A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence.

— Saadi

Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.

— William Shakespeare

A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic…

— Van Wyck Brooks

Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself, might convey his notions…

— Samuel Johnson

Some men by unalterable frame of their constitution are stout, others timorous, some confident, others modest and tractable.

— Jonathan Weiner

And in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly drunk…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man must have a stout digestion to feed upon some men's theology; no sap, no sweetness, no life, but all stern accuracy, and…

— Charles Spurgeon

He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in…

— George Bernard Shaw

It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or…

— George Henry Lewes

Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.

— Walter Lippmann