A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that… — Millicent Fawcett Copy Share Image
Active waiting means present fully to the moment, in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray,… — Bono Copy Share Image
Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
I don't want to limit myself. I want to keep doing all sorts of roles. I guess what lies behind this urge… — Rinko Kikuchi Copy Share Image
You should know that what wakes me up at night, what gets me running fast in the morning, and, frankly, what prompts… — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
Whatever work you undertake, do it seriously, thoroughly and well; never leave it half-done or undone, never feel yourself satisfied unless and… — Syama Prasad Mukherjee Copy Share Image
True conviction of sin--how difficult it is, when its appearances and modes of life are so fair, when it twines itself so… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
And while we stand with conviction and courage, we must live with compassion. Amid a world with massive social needs around us,… — David Platt Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the war, and for some time, the use of colored troops was not contemplated; and how the change… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is our firm conviction that mankind will live the happier when it has learned to live with music more worthily. Whoever… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
Whether we live together in confidence and cohesion; with more faith and pride in ourselves and less self-doubt and hesitation; strong in… — Lester B Pearson Copy Share Image
I have long held an opinion, almost amounting to conviction, in common I believe with many other lovers of natural knowledge, that… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
Converting the war into an antislavery crusade was a brilliant move on Lincoln's part, and it resulted in a surge of voluntary… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
I have a feeling-as compelling as a religious conviction-that if industry will constantly pass on to the worker and the customer all… — Samuel B. Pettengill Copy Share Image
It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotry due to the strong convictions… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I first became interested in Ho Chi Minh in 1964-1965 while I was stationed at the U.S. Embassy in South Vietnam as… — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
I've noticed that there can be a visceral reaction to strong statements about poetry, as if anyone who has an opinion and… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel.… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything. — Ignatius of Loyola Copy Share Image
A hero is born out of the ashes of despair, anyone can be a hero, it takes courage to stand up for… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable. — Charles Trevelyan Copy Share Image
A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human,… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
The people who are opposing the policy of apartheid have not the courage of their convictions. They do not marry non-Europeans. — P. W. Botha Copy Share Image
What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
... some kind of clean, pure feeling does live within us, existing apart from all our convictions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“It wasn't until I found the courage to look inthe mirror and say, 'I Love You' with conviction that I felt truly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
It is lawful and hath been held so through all ages for any one who have the power to call to account… — John Milton Copy Share Image
It is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction. — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
and he would probably not agree with my conviction that a sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. But who… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Never put yourself in controversy. Be transparent and speak your mind. Be clear on your point of view, stand by it and… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
“It made me in all matters a fundamentalist. I didn't go to 'take it in.' I went to be convicted.” — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories. — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image