Firmness Quotes

• Firmness of purpose is one of the best instruments of success.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Success, Mazes, Purpose

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• When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Commitment, Power, Politics

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• Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Funny, Sarcastic, Yield

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.157

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• Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.

  Jim Elliot

  Giving, Weakness, Lord

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• Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Our Words, Action

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• Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it, genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Success, Character, Effort

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• Cowards are scared with threatenings; boys are whipped into confession; but a steady mind acts of itself, ne'er asks the body counsel.

  Thomas Otway

  Boys, Mind, Coward

  Lynette Feasey, John Milton, Thomas Otway, William Congreve (1951). “And so to the playhouse”

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• The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Literature, Mercy

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1324, Delphi Classics

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• Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.

  Aaron Swartz

  Humility, Understanding, Quality

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• It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Determination, Real, Character

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• Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.

  Robert Burns

  Determination, Character, Adversity

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• Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been.

  Ronald Reagan

  Men, Should Have, Backbone

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• A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Wise, Educational, Men

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• It is only dislocated minds whose movements are spasmodic.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Mind, Movement

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• With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Business, Work

  Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

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• Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Civil War, Charity

  Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

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• The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the dignity and firmness of men worthy of freedom.

  Robert Toombs

  Men, Doors, Dignity

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• People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Character, Responsibility, Fate

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.184, Northwestern University Press

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• Friend, our closeness is this: anywhere you put your foot, feel me in the firmness under you.

  Rumi

  Friendship, Feet, Feels

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.140, Penguin UK

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• Firmness is great; persistency is greater.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Greater

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• Lime juice makes things taste fresher. I use it for drinks, salsas, relishes, soups, and sauces. You want some give to your limes - firmness means the inside is dry - and they'll stay softer longer if you don't refrigerate them.

  Bobby Flay

  Mean, Giving, Juice

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• Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Wisdom, Color

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The purpose firm is equal to the deed

  Edward Young

  Deeds, Purpose, Equal

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.22

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• I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

  George Washington

  Trust, Hope, Truth

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.46, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Since coming to Harwell I have met English people of all kinds, and I have come to see in many of them a deep rooted firmness which enables them to lead a decent way of life.

  Klaus Fuchs

  People, Way, Kind

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