Barack Obama strikes me as a man of strong principles and weak convictions - the kind of guy who would rather teach… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
No matter where we are in our spiritual journey, no matter how mature we are in our faith, the sinful world will… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The belief that man is an irresolute creature pulled this way and that by two forces of equal strength, alternately winning and… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
I will do nothing lightly. When I walk, I will walk heavily. When I fight, I will fight with conviction. When I… — Evan Tanner Copy Share Image
Truth is stranger than fiction," as the old saying goes. When I watch a documentary, I can't help crying and then I… — Hiromu Arakawa Copy Share Image
Increase your bets when you are confident and scale down your positions when you don't have conviction. — George Soros Copy Share Image
[We are] no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
I think I have fallen in love and I believe the woman in question, though she has not said so, returns my… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
I try to help people see they're going to have these times in which they turn away, in which they deny Christ… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Chomsky proceeds on the almost unthinkably subversive assumption that the United States should be judged by the same standards that it preaches… — Christopher Hitchens 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
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
I am a most unhappy man. I accidentally ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Many strange-looking people obviously dress according to deep convictions that are not shared by on-lookers - they clearly do not know how… — Anne Hollander 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
Integrity is the integration of ideals, convictions, standards, beliefs-and behavior. When our behavior is congruent with our professed values, when ideals and… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
What we start with is a conviction to fulfill our being. Horses, trees fulfill themselves. Why shouldn't people. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
Today, we're taking a break from the concerns and the bustle of the work-a-day world. But we're also making a new beginning...… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
It will be! the mass is working clearer! Conviction gathers, truer, nearer! The mystery which for Man in Nature lies We dare… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
I began to understand that there were certain talkers--certain girls--whom people liked to listen to, not because of what they, the girls,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image