Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead. — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
When we lock things away," he said with conviction, "we're really imprisoning ourselves. — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
If I am comfortable doing work in a certain way, then I will do it my way with conviction. — Tabu Copy Share Image
“Challenge authority; the authority of your own rational convictions.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
My problem is I'm a man of no convictions - at least, I think I am. — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The worst story I ever wrote was after the conviction of Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay. My co-author and I wrote a… — Bethany McLean Copy Share Image
One difference between a conviction and a prejudice is that a conviction can be explained without getting angry. — Dorothy Sarnoff Copy Share Image
In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
It has long been my conviction that a masked man with a gun is a target. I see no reason to change… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
I share Alfred Nobel's conviction that war is the greatest of all human disasters. Infectious disease runs a good second. — Peter C. Doherty Copy Share Image
We should resist the temptation to identify our religious convictions with the platform of a party or the platitudes of favored politicians. — Ralph E. Reed, Jr Copy Share Image
Obviously a primary liberal conviction is that we should be tolerant of other peoples' convictions. But if we believe in something, we… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
When it comes to individual destiny, there is no power greater in the universe then the conviction of the human soul to… — James Dashner 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
My mother always taught us that if people don't agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if… — Jane Goodall 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
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
Now my playmates never failed to wink and smile mockingly at me when one of them called 'Man flies!' for at the… — Alberto Santos-Dumont Copy Share Image
It is my fundamental conviction that compassion - the natural capacity of the human heart to feel concern for and connection with… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility. You ask,… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
It is very much easier to work than to pray. Most of the missionaries are earnest workers. But are we all that… — Griffith John Copy Share Image
Just after I dedicated my life to service, I felt that I could no longer accept more than I need while others… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
I refuse to turn to theology to justify the life or redeem it. There is a question always of the connection to… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
Of course, even the general designation 'religious' includes various basic ideas or convictions, for example, the indestructibility of the soul, the eternity… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I've never doubted that you should be our leader. I've always believed that, ever since Firestar took you to the Skyrock to… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
From the Crusades, to the Inquisition, to American politics--the name of Jesus had been hijacked as an ally in all kinds of… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The determination and conviction to succeed can only come from within. — Anthony D. Williams Copy Share Image
The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience. — Curt Siodmak Copy Share Image
Faith is the 'yes' of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one's life. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
