Faith is conviction without evidence, and sometimes even in the face of contrary evidence. In some quarters, this quality is perceived as… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
You make a film with a lot of love and conviction and if it doesn't do well the way it was expected… — Kabir Khan Copy Share Image
The literacy level at Mississippi prisons? Fifth grade. Can't read, what are you going to do? If you've got a conviction rap,… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
It is only as powerful as it is relevant in a given scenario. I think we need to be clear it is… — Chris Asplen Copy Share Image
Catholic education aims not only to communicate facts but also to transmit a coherent, comprehensive vision of life, in the conviction that… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy. And I am much mistaken, if experience has not… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The camera or the microphone in the booth is merciless. If you don't believe what you're saying, it hears it. If you… — Riz Ahmed Copy Share Image
Political activists of all stripes are usually a wacky bunch, and never more so than in a system like Britain's, where power… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I want to drink life to the dregs, to enlarge myself to the absolute limits of my being - and to strive… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Pray earnestly and fast with purpose and devotion. Some difficulties, like devils, do not come out save by fasting and by prayer.… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
I was raised in Austin, Texas, around trial lawyers. My friend and I - we were 14 - would go and watch… — Julie White Copy Share Image
Personalism's insistence that only personality-finite and infinite-is ultimately real strengthened me in two convictions: it gave me metaphysical and philosophical grounding for… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Why shouldn't you strengthen your own vibrations through fellowship with people seeking Self-realization, and by group meditation with them? This practice will… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Learning is the first step in making positive changes within yourself. Other factors are conviction, determination, action & effort. Learning & education… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
And so it is that I carry with me from this State to that high and lonely office to which I now… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
When others spoke of the fear of war, you spoke of the need for warriors and peace through strength. When others bewailed… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I believe passionately that Christianity is a way of life, not a theological system with which one must be in intellectual agreement.… — Leslie Weatherhead Copy Share Image
The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently: they are most helplessly in its power. The men who… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Hold tightly to your passion and never let go. Let it infuse your life with meaning and purpose and become the motivator… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
In a world where spiritual confusion is increasing, GodQuest helps bring clarity and conviction. This is a terrific resource for developing a… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
There is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole catalogue of human suffering as the first conviction that the heart of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I believe we should all stay true to what we believe in, but having strong beliefs doesn't have to mean having a… — Senora ROy Copy Share Image
I've been around in public life for a long time. I think people know what I stand for. They know that I… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
To discover depravity in those whom we have loved, is one of the most exquisite tortures to a virtuous mind, and the… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to… — Phil Jackson Copy Share Image
Solitude is one of our great superpowers... Solitude is the key to being able to make effective decisions and then having the… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
By the mind one is bound; by the mind one is freed. ... He who asserts with strong conviction: "I am not… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle. — Jack Whitehall Copy Share Image
