One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one nation evermore.
- Topic: Conviction, Honor
- Location: Grand Teton National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free.
All limitations are self-imposed.
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.
I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity’s approval.
An irresistible passion that would induce me to believe in innate ideas and the truth of prophecy has decided my career. I have always loved liberty with the enthusiasm which actuates the religious man with the passion of a lover and with the conviction of a geometrician.
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
Those are most desirous of honor and glory who cry out the loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.