John Calvin Quotes
There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.John Calvin
Quotes to Explore
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza -
I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
Eddie Murphy -
Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.
Vanna Bonta -
I think what is happening is I think first of all there is confidence in the U.K. economy. We're in a German rather than a Greek position in international financial markets, which is very positive and keeps our debt service costs down, and we're also beginning to see real evidence of rebalancing.
Vince Cable -
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
Walter Benjamin -
I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and self-discipline and self-confidence. It's been a big thing for me.
Ed Skrein
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For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum.
Floyd Patterson -
Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
Jack Welch -
There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you.
Ioan Gruffudd -
If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself.
Dan Marino -
We need to make investment to get the economy going again, to give the private sector the confidence.
Xavier Becerra -
Indians felt despondent about Indian governance. Changing that atmosphere of gloom was a very challenging task, and I faced many difficulties in rectifying the situation and bringing back confidence and hope.
Narendra Modi
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It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'
Olivia Wilde -
When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.
Eamon de Valera -
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
'Aqualung' marks the point at which I had the confidence as a songwriter and as a guitar player to actually pick up and play the guitar and be at the forefront of the band. It's also the album on which I began to address religious issues in my music, and I think that happened simply because the time was right for it.
Ian Anderson -
A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party... Digging beneath a coach's lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it.
Dan Jenkins -
Everything that went on in my life... it was super important for me to have Camden first. And by that I mean my son and to have that relationship with my son to give me that quiet confidence that I needed as a mother and as a woman. Now with Brooklyn, I am just so at ease; I am so comfortable.
Vanessa Lachey
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You just have to be yourself and go full with confidence and be courageous.
Gabby Douglas -
I have my own show. I get to work in Hollywood on my own project. If I can still make it back home by eight to put the kids in bed, then wow: I am having my cake and eating it, too.
Ken Jeong -
Imagine how many people would not vote if they knew they were being recorded while they voted.
Marc Veasey -
The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.
Jack Vance -
The Gospel has to be the norm.
Hans Kung -
There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
John Calvin