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Gratitude leads to happiness. Conversely, lack of gratitude is the curse of the unhappy. -- Konosuke Matsushita
Conversely, it is correct to say that bringing about peace would be the best way to fight terror. -- Bashar al-Assad
Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it. -- Eric Allin Cornell
To protect themselves, the weak focus on the "bad" in people. Conversely, the strong, who fear little, focus on the "good". -- Iimani David
There is no direct evidence that nuclear weapons prevented a world war. Conversely, it is known that they nearly caused one. -- Joseph Rotblat
It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty. -- Marcel Proust
If we seek things that are virtuous and lovely, we surely will find them. Conversely, if we seek for evil, we will find that also. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him. -- Eric Hoffer
By living exclusively for the present, we let ourselves be hemmed in by an ocean of death. Conversely, by reviving the past, we enlarge our living space. -- Amin Maalouf
Students who read the most also read the best, achieve the most, and stay in school the longest. Conversely, those who dont read much cannot get better at it. -- Jim Trelease
You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out. -- Tom Peters
Like or dislike her, the British Queen is harmless. Her role is purely ceremonial. Conversely, life and death are in the hands of the monarch who sits in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. -- Ilana Mercer
Conversely, the most powerful thing an actor can say is "no." If something is presented and it's a stereotypical role or something, you can say no to that, and that's very powerful. -- John Cho
The soul lives forever by giving, not receiving. This is the grand paradox. You get most by giving most. Conversely, by receiving much you impoverish yourself. By selfish accumulation you become bankrupt. -- Julian Johnson
Men always look smart in a well-fitted, tailored suit. Conversely, they can be incredibly handsome in jeans combined with a cashmere jumper or a beaten-up leather jacket or even just a cotton T-shirt. -- Tamara Mellon
The lifting up of the woman does not require the tearing down of the man. In fact, a strong woman appreciates a strong man. Conversely, a strong man is not intimidated by a strong woman. -- T. D. Jakes
The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment. -- Andy Rooney
When you know principles that can motivate you, you will then know principles that can motivate others. Conversely, when you know principles that can motivate others, you will then know principles that can motivate you. -- W. Clement Stone
Conversely, beware the man who does nothing but ask you questions about yourself and offers no information about himself. Not only is he keeping you at bay, he is probably not listening to your answers. -- Merrill Markoe
We know the human mind is programmed to glaze over when bored. Conversely, the mind is more alert in the presence of novelty. Our muse needs to stay seductive to keep our hands doing the right things. -- Robert Genn
A 70-year-old who takes good care of herself can have the biology of a 40-year-old. Conversely, a hard-living 30-year-old who has been inattentive to his health and well-being may have the biology of a man many years older. -- Deepak Chopra
A man's ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained, his ability also is sound and sober. Conversely, when the one degenerates, the other is contaminated. -- Seneca the Younger
Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people. -- Cesar Chavez
One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that ' an unjust law is no law at all. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never wish ill on someone else. The gods may become confused and bring that fortune to you. Conversely, this may be another reason to wish well on others. That way even a garbled wish can only have a positive outcome. -- Orsov
Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do refine our tools. So I am arguing with, or at least playing with, the idea that art never improves. -- Ian Mcewan
There is a basic law that like attracts like. Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically and hopefully, his positive thinking sets in motion creative forces - and success instead of eluding him flows toward him. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The human spirit is so utterly one with the body that the term "form" can be used of the body and retain its proper meaning. Conversely, the form of the body is spirit, and this is what makes the human being a person. -- Pope Benedict XVI
The more we obey God, the more we desire to help others. The more we help others, the more we love God and on and on. Conversely, the more we disobey God and the more selfish we are, the less love we feel. -- John H. Groberg
It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our contemporary reality. Conversely, it just takes skilful storytelling to recharge that connection to make the past come alive in our present. -- Simon Schama
The Devil doesn't make us do anything. The Devil, for example, doesn't make us mean. Rather, when we're mean, we make the Devil. Literally. Our actions create him. Conversely, when we behave with compassion, generosity, and grace, we create God in the world. -- Tom Robbins
Plenty of kind, decent, caring people have no religious beliefs, and they act out of the goodness of their hearts. Conversely, plenty of people who profess to be religious, even those who worship regularly, show no particular interest in the world beyond themselves. -- John C. Danforth
The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
As any doctor can tell you, the most crucial step toward healing is having the right diagnosis. If the disease is precisely identified, a good resolution is far more likely. Conversely, a bad diagnosis usually means a bad outcome, no matter how skilled the physician. -- Andrew Weil
A society which sees her modesty or her "hang-ups" as a problem is necessarily a society which will not be able to get him to commit. Conversely, a society which respected modesty, or what now goes by "hang-ups", was one in which men were obligated. -- Wendy Shalit
It is usually a mistake to impose an individual's taste on a room that has its own....style. Conversely, to put very fine pieces of furniture in a room that is without architectural distinction is as absurd as wearing a tiara with a bathing suit. -- Nancy Lancaster
There is a kind of preaching that God blesses, specifically the proclamation that exalts the crucified Christ by the power of the Spirit. Conversely, there is a kind of preaching that God does not bless, a mere echoing of man's empty wisdom that is devoid of Christ. -- Steve Lawson
Most psychologists treat the mind as disembodied, a phenomenon with little or no connection to the physical body. Conversely, physicians treat the body with no regard to the mind or the emotions. But the body and mind are not separate, and we cannot treat one without the other. -- Candace Pert
for the more a man restricts himself the closer he is, conversely, to infinity. -- Stefan Zweig
Thus, the more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known, and conversely. -- Werner Heisenberg
If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause. -- Aristotle
This is the best Man United have played in Europe this season and, conversely, the opposition has been excellent. -- Ron Atkinson
Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives. -- Graydon Carter
Conservatism, being an upper-class characteristic, is decorous; and conversely, innovation, being a lower-class phenomenon, is vulgar. ...Innovation is bad form. -- Thorstein Veblen
To me there can be no liberation without socialism. And conversely, there can be no socialism without liberation for everybody. -- Clara Fraser
The manifestation of Truth is a mystery of Love, just as, conversely, the content of Love is a mystery of Truth. -- Frithjof Schuon
Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same. -- Xun Zi
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle. -- Andrew Carnegie
There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories. -- Stanley Kubrick
The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs. -- Melissa Etheridge
No big modern war has been won without preponderant sea power; and, conversely, very few rebellions of maritime provinces have succeeded without acquiring sea power. -- Samuel Eliot Morison
It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover. -- James Gleick
I've always said winning's the great deodorant, and conversely, when you have a bad record, everything stinks, and everything starts to unravel, and everything falls apart. -- John Madden
Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed -- Edward Bond
Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed. -- Edward Bond
How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking the writer? Too often. -- Lev Grossman
We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as human creatures. -- William Barrett
Learn to let your intuition-gut instinct-tell you when the food, the relationship, the job isn't good for you (and conversely, when what you're doing is just right). -- Oprah Winfrey
I've always said winning's the great deodorant, and conversely, when you have a bad record - everything stinks - and everything starts to unravel, and everything falls apart. -- John Madden
I have long admired Caroline Leavitt's probing insight into people, her wit and compassion, her ability to find humor in dark situations, and conversely, her tenderness towards characters. -- Dan Chaon
Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth. -- Aldous Huxley
If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted. -- Eric Idle
One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms. -- Gottfried Leibniz
Intelligent people, as some say, in their openness, are indeed slow to criticize, but conversely, in their openness to the concerns of others, the genuine are slow to fret about being criticized. -- Criss Jami
How miraculous it was, noted Diogenes, that whenever one felt that sort of urge, one could readily masturbate. But conversely how disheartening that one could not simply rub one's stomach when hungry. -- David Markson
There must be a judicious arrangement of all the parts. Considered conversely, the artist's task is to fill his panel with a design that conforms to its shape and is beautiful in itself. -- Walter J. Phillips
It is a commonly observed fact that the enslavement of women is invariably associated with a low type of social life, and that, conversely, her elevation towards an equality with man uniformly accompanies progress. -- Herbert Spencer
Deeds that seemed unimportant at the time would prove to have been momentous; a tiny act of selfishness and unkindness or, conversely, an unconsidered act of generosity would become the measure of a human life -- Karen Armstrong

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