It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“You need energy and purpose to become the person you’re destined to be.” — Fennel Hudson Copy Share Image
I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty. — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising. — John McCarthy Copy Share Image
Change arises from conviction. Stop voting in fear. Start voting for hope. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
“...she had the conviction of the newly converted, which wouldn't last forever, but would for the moment brook no discouragement or allow… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada. — Preston Manning Copy Share Image
To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The people who are good at being civil often lack strong convictions and people who have strong convictions often lack civility. — Martin E. Marty Copy Share Image
How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments… — Vachel Lindsay Copy Share Image
You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I do have strong convictions and political opinions, but I don't think it's necessary to imbue my photographic work with them. I… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
Anything that can hurt the convictions of another, particularly religious convictions, must be avoided. Freedom of expression must be exercised in a… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
I can prophecy that your grandchildren in America will live under socialism -- Our firm conviction is that sooner or later Capitalism… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
Wherever we turn we find that the real obstacles to peace are human will and feeling, human convictions, prejudices, opinions. If we… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To abdicate from the rule of reason and substitute for it an authentication of belief by the intentness and degree of conviction… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
Be not afraid! In admitting a creator, refuse not to examine his creation; and take not the assertions of creatures like yourselves,… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied. You cannot talk yourself into it or… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
To-morrow is that lamp upon the marsh, which a traveller never reacheth; To-morrow, the rainbow's cup, coveted prize of ignorance; To-morrow, the… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
To have Christian hope means to know about evil and yet to go to meet the future with confidence. The core of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Convictions following the admission into evidence of confessions which are involuntary, i.e., the product of coercion, either physical or psychological, cannot stand.… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people anyway. For years I've regarded his existence as a monument to all… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Even despots accept the excellence of liberty. The simple truth is that they wish to keep it for themselves and promote the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Have faith in your passion and conviction, identify your dreams and have courage to pursue them — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
