Quotes with assurance

  • What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.
  • A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wideawake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it will live to regret his steps.
  • There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance.
  • The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become.
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  • Carlos Castaneda A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wideawake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it will live to regret his steps.
    Carlos Castaneda
    American author and anthropologist (1925 - 1998)
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  • Benjamin Cardozo Bills of rights give assurance to the individual of the preservation of his liberty. They do not define the liberty they promise.
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Robert Collier Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing...
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Adolf Hitler I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Samuel Johnson It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Sir Walter Scott It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Rod Serling It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.
    Rod Serling
    American screenwriter, playwright, television producer, and narrator (1924 - 1975)
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  • Dwight L. Moody light for every darkness, life in death, the promise of our Lord's return, and the assurance of everlasting glory.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • John Locke One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Bertrand Russell Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Jeremy Collier Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.
    Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failure. In the assurance of strength there is strength, and, they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Archibald Macleish The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • A. R. Ammons The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
    Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues (1996 edition), Univ of Michigan Pr
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Ben Kingsley There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance.
    Ben Kingsley
    English actor (1943 - )
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  • Nicholas Breton Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.
    Nicholas Breton
    English poet and novelist (1545 - 1626)
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  • Hannah Arendt What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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