Assurance Quote by Gertrude Himmelfarb Download Open image “Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success.” — Gertrude Himmelfarb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Assurance Confidence Seductive Success
The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Success is seductive. It can make one complacent and inefficient and stale. — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
There is nothing more seductive — and dangerous — than being listened to. — Donald Antrim Copy Share Image
Success is a tricky mistress. It's nice to have but it's a tricky thing to embrace. — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
Success comes with a baggage. When you are successful, there is a lot of temptation to not foray outside of your boundaries and just… — Prithviraj Sukumaran Copy Share Image
The footnote would seem to be the smallest detail in a work of history. Yet it carries a large burden of responsibility, testifying to… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
“...when President Clinton, on the anniversary of his election, spoke in the church in Tennessee where Martin Luther King, Jr., had delivered his last… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
As liberty of thought is absolute, so is liberty of speech, which is 'inseparable' from the liberty of thought. Liberty of speech, moreover, is… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in American history… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
“Stigmas as the corollaries of values. If work, independence, responsibility, respectability are valued, then their converse must be devalued, seen as disreputable.” — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom. — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide. — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
In its sentimental mode, compassion is an exercise in moral indignation, in feeling good rather than doing good ... In its unsentimental mode, compassion… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
The Marxist combination of materialism and determinism is fatally anti-humanistic. It denies a consciousness, a mind, that is independent of material conditions and class… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing but the… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
Without will, without individuals, there are no heroes. But neither are there villains. And the absence of villains is as prostrating, as soul-destroying, as… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
She had been dragged in the most humiliating of all dusts, the dust reserved for older women who let themselves be approached, on amorous… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When God overcomes our difficulties for us, we have the assurance that we are engaged in His work and not our own — George Muller Copy Share Image
What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
There are believers who by God's grace, have climbed the mountains of full assurance and near communion, their place is with the eagle in… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance tends to go out the window. — Alan Cox Copy Share Image
Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once the means… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
We have a commitment to serve our Lord. We have an assurance that the cause is just and worthy. But, above all, we have… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
“Out of all its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled by elaborate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not rest, believer, until you have full assurance of your interest in Jesus. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image