Constancy Quotes - Page 5

• Whensoever God's truth is defaced or when any man turns away from the pure simplicity of the Gospel, we must not in any wise spare him, but although the whole world should set itself against us, yet must we maintain the case with invincible constancy, without bending for any creature.

  John Calvin

  Wise, Men, Simplicity

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• Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of sleep, the cause of most wars and practically all persecutions.

  Freya Stark

  Daughter, War, Sleep

  Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.113, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• How admirable and beautiful is the simplicity of the Evangelists! They never speak injuriously of the enemies of Jesus Christ, of His judges, nor of His executioners. They report the facts without a single reflection. They comment neither on their Master's mildness when He was smitten, nor on His constancy in the hour of His ignominious death, which they thus describe: "And they crucified Jesus.

  Jean Racine

  Beautiful, Bible, Jesus

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• The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Support, Soldier, Quality

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• Nothing outside the will can hinder or harm the will; it can only harm itself. If then we accept this, and, when things go amiss, are inclined to blame ourselves, remembering that judgment alone can disturb our peace and constancy, I swear to you by all the gods that we have made progress.

  Epictetus

  Progress, Blame, Remember

  Epictetus (1916). “The Discourses and Manual: Together with Fragments of His Writings”

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• Wealth is also defined by family, connection to our ancestry, and our best vision of the future. All of these find their inner spirit, their constancy, and their strength in the values that shape our thinking and our actions.

  Nainoa Thompson

  Thinking, Visions Of The Future, Connections

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• The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise in mortification.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Exercise, Saint, Serving Others

  Saint Francis de Sales, Aeterna Press (2015). “Letters to Persons in the World”, p.24, Aeterna Press

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• Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

  Charles Dickens

  Mean, Love Is, Effort

  Charles Dickens (2010). “Bleak House”, p.207, Broadview Press

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• Tempus never left a problem for another to solve. Tempus never let the pain or difficulty of an undertaking persuade him not to pursue a resolution his heart thought was right. Tempus never gave up.

  Janet Morris

  Loyalty, Determination, Pain

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.6, Paradise Publishing

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• What seems real one moment is fiction the next
  and gone out of existence the moment after that.
  Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth,
  and change our only constancy.

  David Budbill

  Real, Enemy, Gone

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• I am always yours to call, wherever the sea can reach.

  Janet Morris

  Love, Sea

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.530, Paradise Publishing

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• We can't float through life. We can't be incidental or accidental. We must fix our gaze on a guiding star as soon as one comes upon the horizon and once we have attached ourselves to that star we must keep our eyes on it and our hands upon the plow. It is the consistency of the pursuit of the highest possible vision that you can find in front of you that gives you the constancy, that gives you the encouragement, that gives you the way to understand where you are and why it's important for you to do what you can do.

  Ossie Davis

  Encouragement, Stars, Eye

  Ossie Davis (2006). “Life Lit by Some Large Vision: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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• In the consciousness of belonging together, in the sense of constancy, resides the sanctity, the beauty of matrimony, which helps us to endure pain more easily, to enjoy happiness doubly, and to give rise to the fullest and finest development of our nature.

  Fanny Lewald

  Pain, Giving, Together

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• The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wisdom, Art, Agitation

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• I do not wonder that, where the monastick life is permitted, every order finds votaries, and every monastery inhabitants. Men will submit to any rule, by which they may be exempted from the tyranny of caprice and of chance. They are glad to supply by external authority their own want of constancy and resolution, and court the government of others, when long experience has convinced them of their own inability to govern themselves.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Order, Discipline

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales”, p.422

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• When you accurately perceive the fluidity of things, you can also begin to perceive the constancy behind them: the creative, transformative, boundless, immutable Tao.

  Laozi

  Creative, Taoism, Fluidity

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• We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Bears, Heroic

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• To grasp life and meaning, we assume constancy where it does not exist. We name experiences, emotions, and subjective states and assume that what is named is as enduring as its name. Human beings blessed and cursed with consciousness - especially consciousness of their own being - think in terms of names, words, symbols.

  James Bugental

  Blessed, Thinking, Names

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• He who would valiant be against all disaster; let him in constancy follow the Master. There's no discouragement shall make him once relent; his first avowed intent to be a pilgrim.

  John Buchan

  Firsts, Discouragement, Disaster

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• Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to them, who are false to you.

  John Donne

  Thinking, Poor, True You

  John Donne, “The Indifferent”

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• Feeling the security and constancy of love from a spouse, a parent or a child is a rich blessing. Such love nurtures and sustains faith in God. Such love is a source of strength and casts out fear. Such love is the desire of every human soul.

  David A. Bednar

  Mother, Children, Blessing

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• I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started to understand the beauty of constancy and history and change and going on the roller coaster with someone - of having a partner in life.

  Maria Bello

  Lasts, Roller Coaster, Monogamy

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• The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the peace, of the eternal sleep awaiting us. So it must have sounded when there was no Yalta, no Oreanda here; so it sounds now, and it will sound as indifferently and monotonously when we are all no more. And in this constancy, in this complete indifference to the life and death of each of us, there lies hid, perhaps, a pledge of our eternal salvation, of the unceasing movement of life upon earth, of unceasing progress towards perfection.

  Anton Chekhov

  Lying, Sleep, Sea

  "The Lady with the Dog". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1899.

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• In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the majority will extend to far great number, and will be carried on with much greater fury, than can almost ever be apprehended from the dominion of a single sceptre. Under a cruel prince they have the plaudits of the people to animate their generous constancy under their sufferings; but those who are subjected to wrong under multitudes are deprived of all external consolation: they seem deserted by mankind, overpowered by a conspiracy of their whole species.

  Edmund Burke

  Exercise, Numbers, People

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• The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Relationship, Love Is, Order

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