The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Integrity is the integration of ideals, convictions, standards, beliefs-and behavior. When our behavior is congruent with our professed values, when ideals and… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
[We are] no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I think there's a kind of confidence I often feel when I'm writing that I don't feel when I'm in the world,… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“He may have as strong a sense of what would be right, as you can have, without being so equal under particular… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I think it is not only important that people go to the Anne Frank House to see the secret annex, but also… — Otto Frank Copy Share Image
in proportion as my own discomfort has increased, my conviction of necessity to search into the wants of the friendless and afflicted… — Dorothea Dix Copy Share Image
It is my conviction that it is the intuitive, spiritual aspects of us humans-the inner voice-that gives us the 'knowing,' the peace,… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
“If you were destined to be a poet, then you won't brainstorm for lines that rhymes. If you were destined to be… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Moreover, broad plans commensurate with our national purpose and resources would bring conviction of our power to every soldier in the front… — Kelly Miller Copy Share Image
This book's title, Rough Beauty , conveys Anderson's conviction that the hard scrabble lives of most of the residents of Vidor, Texas,… — Anne Wilkes Tucker Copy Share Image
God is never a God of discouragement. When you have a discouraging spirit or train of thought in your mind, you can… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“To be a great achiever, you must first discover your main purpose of existing through feasible communication mode with your maker, the… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
If you're willing to give convicts time served and let them walk, why do you want to give them a criminal record?… — Peter Moskos Copy Share Image
We all have our convictions formed by different things, and mine are informed by my faith, they're informed by the Word of… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
If you know the differences between an oak and a poplar, a spruce and a pine, down to the needles... you are… — T. Allen Lawson Copy Share Image
If George W. Bush really has the courage of his convictions the United States very soon will either wind up dominating the… — Lyn Nofziger Copy Share Image
Penance is the willingness to undergo hardships for the achievement of a good purpose. I was willing. But when hardships came I… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Passionate conviction ... sparks romances, wins battles, and drives people to pursue dreams others wouldn't dare. Belief in ourselves and in what… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
When you understand the values of God's kingdom, you will best understand His agenda.4 However, it is my conviction that the message… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
The temptation is for us to share our own opinions, our own thoughts and to speak from the whole realm of possibility.… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God. The important consistency in a saint… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I loved our music discussion. I live for discussions like that. It's my favorite thing because it means that people care about… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
“It came with a stirring of the conviction that was never to leave her: that human being, whatever his color or creed… — Margaret Landon Copy Share Image
It is my personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
The fanatic has the courage of his conviction and the intolerance of his courage. He is opposed to the death penalty for… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that the most important division in human affairs is probably not the one between left and right, liberal and conservative.… — Bill Keller Copy Share Image
Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I will do nothing lightly. When I walk, I will walk heavily. When I fight, I will fight with conviction. When I… — Evan Tanner Copy Share Image
You don't choose your themes; they choose you. The meaning of your stories will rise out of your deepest longings, often out… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
I AM a person of action, IMMOVABLE in my determination, CONFIDENT in my abilities, UNSHAKABLE in my convictions, IMPERVIOUS to doubt, INSENSITIVE… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of… — Herman Kahn Copy Share Image
I implore you, I entreat you and I challenge you to speak with conviction. To say what you believe in a manner… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
Our political class no longer has any convictions. You can only pass along the beliefs that you hold. They no longer believe… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
We Jews who willingly and happily confirm our covenantal status and its attendant rights and duties must take the question of mission… — David Novak Copy Share Image
What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles of conduct sort of institutional genetic code… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
It takes so little, so infinitely little, for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning: love, convictions, faith,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image