Sure Quotes - page 4

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull. (H. L. Mencken)
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. View quote
Clarence Darrow
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused. View quote
Walter Mondale
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy. View quote
George Horace Lorimer
What I know for sure is what you give comes back to you. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom. View quote
Andy Warhol
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't. View quote
Lord Byron
Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done. View quote
Norman Vincent Peale
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment. View quote
Mark Twain
Something must be left to chance; nothing is sure in a sea fight above all. View quote
Horatio Nelson
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better. View quote
John D. Carmack
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing. View quote
Isaac Newton
I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time. View quote
Orison Swett Marden
But I am sure also that from a political point of view, and from a social point of view the federal link, without infringing the sovereignty of any of the nations which might take part in such as association, could be beneficial. (Aristide Briand)
The secret is to make sure the business is running to perfection, with or without me. View quote
Gordon Ramsay
Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you have to just jump off the bridge and grow wings on your way down. View quote
Daniel Steele
Philosophers are never quite sure what they are talking about - about what the issues really are - and so often it takes them rather a long time to recognize that someone with a somewhat different approach (or destination, or starting point) is making a contribution. View quote
Daniel Dennett
When you're a child, the most important thing is to be able to live a life of comfort. You want to be sure that the moon goes up at night and the sun comes up in the morning and dad comes home from work. View quote
Keegan-Michael Key