Resilience is a precious skill. People who have it tend to also have three underlying advantages: a believe that they can influence… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
It is my deep personal conviction that abortion is wrong. I hope that some day we will see the current outrageously large… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
Each believer comes to understand his or her significance in relationship to the whole Body, and the conviction begins to take hold:… — Danny Silk Copy Share Image
Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People who carry in their hearts a strong conviction concerning the living reality of the Almighty and their accountability to Him for… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Don't take what someone else has made sure of and pretend it's you yourself that have made sure of it till it's… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
The way to build superior long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs...When you have tremendous conviction on a trade,… — Stanley Druckenmiller Copy Share Image
The sick-room becomes the scene of intense convictions; and among these, none, it seems to me, is more distinct and powerful than… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
I know that it is often difficult to stand up for one's beliefs when they are being harshly challenged. But as one… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Mostly, in song writing, my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
We are... living in a free society without the faith that built that society - and without the conviction and dedication needed… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Worst of all, however, is the devastation wrought by the misuse of religious conviction for political ends. In truth, we cannot sharply… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power. The only… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or false. The importance… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Even before he left the room, — and certainly, not five minutes after, the clear conviction dawned upon her, shined bright upon… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
For the far higher task of teaching fortitude and patience I was never fool enough to suppose myself qualified, nor have I… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Listen to the advice of others, but follow only what you understand and can unite in your own feeling. Be firm, be… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Copy Share Image
My greatest personal mistake is ever to allow a word or moment that “doesn’t count,” i.e., that I do not refer to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Toleration of people who differ in convictions and habits requires a residual awareness of the complexity of truth and the possibility of… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery,… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
My music is just about story telling. I don't have much to say, and I'm not trying to change anyone's mind. I'm… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
“...by bringing myself over the edge and back, I discovered a passion to live my days fully, a conviction that will sustain… — Jonathan Waterman Copy Share Image
I had so often sung 'Deutschland u:ber Alles' and shouted 'Heil' at the top of my lungs, that it seemed to me… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
'Peace on earth, good will toward men' - democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Be strong and follow your own convictions. You can't assume there is a lot of time to do what you like. This… — Marc Bolan Copy Share Image
Irrespective of doubts and convictions, and for the Infinite Love I bear for one and all, I continue to come as the… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
Tolerance is not a spiritual gift; it is the distinguishing mark of postmodernism; and sadly, it has permeated the very fiber of… — John Stott Copy Share Image
My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuses...We recognize the negro as God and God's… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Poetry interprets in two ways: it interprets by expressing, with magical felicity, the physiognomy and movements of the outward world; and it… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
To allow only the kind of art that the average man understands is the worst small-mindedness and the murder of mind and… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“A conviction, unformulated but strong, rose to the working level of her mind - that painting did something more important for Nicholas… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
Both President Obama and I shared the conviction that territorial and maritime disputes in the Asia Pacific region should be settled peacefully… — Benigno Aquino III Copy Share Image
It is my conviction that your generation is better and stronger than was ours... better in many ways! I have the faith… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
I have always tried to be obedient regarding important matters like not being scalded to death by burning oil, but when public… — Barbara Dana Copy Share Image
Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
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