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
I think most of my career has been built on conviction and the personality to carry that image or stride confidently on… — Erin O'Connor Copy Share Image
There's still plenty of people who have this deep conviction that America is a Christian country and ought to say so in… — Diana L. Eck Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their conviction. I wish I could teach the sad young of… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
“When I find that stubbornness continually overrides common sense regardless of the logic of my argument, it seems that the only effective… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've been using Vista on my home laptop since it shipped, and can say with some conviction that nobody should be using… — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
Globalization - and I think we share this conviction - is that globalization needs to be shaped politically, it needs to be… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Faith doesn't come from your heart or mind, it comes from your soul. It is a Spiritual force. It is the assurance… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
Infallible denotes the quality of never deceiving or misleading and so means wholly trustworthy and reliable; inerrant means wholly true. Scripture is… — J. I. Packer 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 have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do—a Work, if you like,… — William Makepeace Thackeray 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
Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Whenever the conviction of God’s Spirit comes there is the softening of the whole nature to obey; but if the obedience is… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The world has always needed human beings who refuse to believe that history is nothing but a dull, monstrous selfrepetition, a selfperpetuating,… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I have no hesitation in putting a name to the embodiment of all that I think is best about football. It's Paul… — Bobby Charlton Copy Share Image
So many people grew up in the church, and you can have an awesome upbringing, but I made a personal conviction; I… — AJ Michalka Copy Share Image
Make sure you have the courage to stay true to your convictions and not let the market affect your emotions. — Walter Schloss Copy Share Image
The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor… — Horace 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
The main fighter for the DSP [Deutsch-Sozialistische Partei or German Socialist Party], as I have said, was Julius Streicher, then a teacher… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart. — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
