Constancy Quotes

• The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Motivational, Happiness, Success

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

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• The secret of making dreams come true can be summarized in four C's.They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy; and the greatest of these is Confidence.

  Walt Disney

  Trust, Dream, True Friend

  Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.55, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Intelligent, Doe, Persevere

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.251, GENERAL PRESS

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• Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.

  Joseph Addison

  Friendship Love, World, Virtue

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1831). “Tatler and Guardian”, p.333

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• Constancy of purpose is the first principle of success.

  Napoleon Hill

  Principles, Purpose, Firsts

  Napoleon Hill, Judith Williamson (2008). “Timeless Thoughts for Today”, p.131, Jaico Publishing House

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• Constancy is the complement of all the other human virtues.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Consistency, Virtue, Humans

  "Life & Writings of Joseph Mazzini".

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• I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.

  Richard Nelson Bolles

  Work, Life Changing, Needs

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• Nothing that you plan is going to work out. Everything is going to be totally different than the way you expected. And things will constantly challenge you. Wherever you look the world is not as solid it seems to be.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Loving Life, Hard Times

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• The secret of inner success is constancy to our highest character. -

  Sri Chinmoy

  Character, Secret, Highest

  Sri Chinmoy (1972). “Eternity's breath: aphorisms and essays”

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• The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy

  Thomas Bulfinch

  Sunflower, Emblems

  Thomas Bulfinch (2013). “Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Fable”, p.164, Lulu Press, Inc

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• O constancy, be strong upon my side,
  Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue!
  I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Heart, Men

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 4, l. 6

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• Prayer is the pulse of the renewed soul; and the constancy of its beat is the test and measure of the spiritual life.

  Octavius Winslow

  Spiritual, Prayer, Soul

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• The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, & intellect & feeling are only important in so far as they contribute to that.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Feelings, Important, Matter

  "The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill".

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• O heaven! were man, But constant, he were perfect.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Men, Perfect

  'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 5, sc. 4, l. 110

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• The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wise, Heart, Consistency

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• But I am constant as the Northern Star, Of whose true fixed and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Quality, Firmament

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 59

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• When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  "Perceive This! : How to Get Everything You Want Out of Life by Changing Your Perceptions". Book by Kevin A. Martin, 2004.

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• I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child.

  Sarah Fielding

  Children, Suffering Of Others, Mind

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• Whatever is genuine in social relations endures, despite of time, error, absence, and destiny; and that which has no inherent vitality had better die at once. A great poet has truly declared that constancy is no virtue, but a fact.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Destiny, Errors, Facts

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.126

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• The mountain rill Seeks with no surer flow the far bright sea, Than my unchang'd affections flow to thee.

  Benjamin

  Sea, Mountain, Flow

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• There is nothing but death
  Our affections can sever,
  And till life's latest breath
  Love shall bind us for ever.

  James Gates Percival

  Affection, Breaths

  James Gates Percival, Erasmus Darwin North (1866). “The Poetical Works of James Gates Percival: With a Biographical Sketch”, p.133

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• Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives.

  Dan Savage

  Children, Adults, Stability

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• Alas! they had been friends in youth;
  But whispering tongues can poison truth,
  And constancy lives in realms above;
  And life is thorny, and youth is vain;
  And to be wroth with one we love
  Doth work like madness in the brain.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Life, Brain, Poison

  'Christabel' pt. 2 (1800) (l. 408)

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• Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

  Thomas Browne

  Causes, Stubbornness, Obstinacy

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 1, sect. 25

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• Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Marriage, Choices, Vices

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2015). “Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Top Complete Works Collection”, p.1833, 谷月社

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