It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can. — R. Lee Ermey Copy Share Image
If an individual agrees with everybody, he lacks conviction; if he likes everybody and is everybody's friend, he is indifferent to one… — Nikolay Dobrolyubov Copy Share Image
“Trust is like a two-way mirror, transparent on one side, with a blind dimness unable to see through on the other side.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that… — David Wolpe Copy Share Image
But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
[Richard M. Nixon was] a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“A person who holds strong convictions might appear inflexible, impolite, or exceptionally obtuse, when they are merely direct.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The highest court is in the end one's own conscience and conviction-that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist-and… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
We Can Most Safely Achieve Truly Universal Tolerance When We Respect That Which Is Characteristic In The Individual And In Nations, Clinging,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According to my… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our… — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
If you're brought up Catholic, you're convinced of magic at a very early age. You're convinced the world isn't entirely real, which… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
Cockburn's personal history links him to the politics of the Communist Party, and there are still moments in his writing - debating… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But would the young do any better under the same circumstances? Will they do any better when their turns come? The answer… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
“That which struck the present writer most forcibly on his first perusal of the 'Origin of Species' was the conviction that Teleology,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
My writing derived from the conviction I conceived during my college years: one should lead one's life as if one were the… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
To write honestly and with conviction anything about the migration of birds, one should oneself have migrated. Somehow or other we should… — William Beebe Copy Share Image
Pride is an established conviction of one's own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts with his deepest convictions. Then,… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
I am a teacher... The life I lead is the most agreeable I can imagine. [In the] classroom ... there await me… — Moses Hadas Copy Share Image
If, however, there is to be a war of nerves let us make sure our nerves are strong and are fortified by… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
Our belief in God is not blind faith. Belief is having a firm conviction something is true, not hoping it's true. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If… — Sam Phillips Copy Share Image
My advice to young entrepreneurs is not to accept defeat in the face of odds, and challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence… — Dhirubhai Ambani Copy Share Image
Nothing keeps people together like the exalted conviction that they alone are to be spared that eternal anguish of hell fire to… — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
American federalism was the embodiment of political tolerance and decentralization - the expression of the liberal conviction that society can manage itself… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
I quitted my Seat in the House of Delegates, from a Conviction that I was no longer able to do any essential… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“He was a convinced but hardworked rationalist, always hard at it re-convincing himself of his convictions.” — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image