(494 quotes found)
“The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence”
Thomas Wolfe
“Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty”
Jeremy Collier
“Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.”
R. I. Fitzhenry
“The prize reaffirms our conviction that with truth, courage and determination as our weapons, Tibet will be liberated. Our struggle must remain non-violent and free of hatred.”
Dalai Lama
“If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.”
William Barclay
“I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.”
Michael Caine
“What convinces is conviction”
Lyndon B. Johnson
“Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that ''God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself',' but a sure trust and confidence that Christ died for my sins, that He loved me and gave Himself for me.”
John Wesley
“Follow your honest convictions and be strong”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
Blaise Pascal
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