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
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
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
“A person who holds strong convictions might appear inflexible, impolite, or exceptionally obtuse, when they are merely direct.” — Kilroy J. Oldster 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
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
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
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
I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something… — Markus Wolf Copy Share Image
If you were making poetry out of convictions - trying to convince other people - you were in the territory of rhetoric,… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
If it be true that men of strong imaginations are usually dogmatists--and I am inclined to think it is so--it ought to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
With his trademark courage and conviction, President Reagan led us out of the Cold War, spreading his vision of freedom, resulting in… — John Doolittle Copy Share Image
To be ignorant or unconvinced of one's own needs has become the unforgivable anti-social act. The good citizen is one who imputes… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
One of the most productive things that we ever do in our lives is to think. To be able to think is… — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
Occasionally we are asked whether it would make sense to modify our investment strategy to perform better in today's financial climate. Our… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
So we are mocked by this world when we speak of God's coming judgment against all sin, and when we plead that… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
How can death become joyous? How can death become happiness? When Al-Hussein asked his nephew Al-Qassem, when he had not yet reached… — Hassan Nasrallah Copy Share Image
It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
Leading with character gives the wise leader clear-cut advantages. They are easier to trust and follow; they honor commitments and promises; their… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader - the common purpose. The best executives put this common purpose clearly before… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
When the most learned evolutionists can give neither the how nor the why, the marvels seem to show that adaptation is inexplicable.… — Norman Macbeth 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
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
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 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
... some kind of clean, pure feeling does live within us, existing apart from all our convictions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 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
But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe… — Knut Hamsun 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
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
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
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
“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
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 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