Anne Lamott Quotes

I do what I believe.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

Yeah, I guess I'm not a particularly religious person, but I do really believe strongly that we all need to believe in something, and that's very personal to each one of us.

What you believe, what you value, how you live, matters.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values - and follow my own moral compass - then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system.

You have to be true to what you believe in.

I think my moral ground is very much intact.

My moral compass is strong.

I was taught growing up that you always do what you believe.

You do what you believe in.

It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.

I just want to do what I feel is right in my heart.

Stands must be taken. If I am to respect myself I have to search myself for what I believe is right and take a stand on what I find. Otherwise, I have not gathered together what I have been given; I have not embraced what I have learned; I lack my own conviction.

I just do what I do because it feels right. Other people attach labels to that.

When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for.

I've seen pretty clear, ever since I was a young un, as religion's something else besides notions. It isn't notions sets people doing the right things--it's feelings. It's the same with the notions in religion as it is with math'matics--a man may be able to work problems straight off in's head as he sits by the fire and smokes his pipe; but if he has to make a machine or a building, he must have a will and a resolution, and love something else better than his own ease.

A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.

To know who I am is a species of knowing where I stand. My identity is defined by the commitments and identifications which provide the frame or horizon within which I can try to determine from case to case what is good, or valuable, or what ought to be done, or what I endorse or oppose. In other words, it is the horizon within which I am capable of taking a stand.

Just because it's a rat race doesn't mean it's okay to be a rat.

The highest court is in the end one's own conscience and conviction-that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist-and before any science there is first of all belief. For me, it is belief in a complete lawfulness in everything that happens.

I just listened to that inner voice. By the way, it's always a good move to listen to that inner voice... if it doesn't lead to a crime

I think there's a God and I know it's not me. I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life.

I've had a great life following my faith and my instincts.