Steady Quotes

• A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.

  Thomas Moore

  Love, Friendship, Valentines Day

  Thomas Moore (1829). “The poetical works of Thomas Moore”, p.331

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  The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

  Lee Iacocca

  Family, Cousin, Rocks

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• It is steady, reliable, tough. It never yields to panic. It is never defeated one-sidedly. It achieves everything attainable by character and tenacity.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Soccer, Football, Character

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• In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Light, Self, Effort

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• Mass production is only profitable if its rhythm can be maintained.. that is, if it can continue to sell its product in steady or increasing quantity. The result is that while, under the handicraft or small-unit system of production that was typical a century ago, demand created the supply, today supply must actively seek to create its corresponding demand.

  Edward Bernays

  Typical, Demand, Today

  Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.46, Lulu.com

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• Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

  C. S. Lewis

  True Love, Famous Love, Falling In Love

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.37, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

  Eileen Caddy

  Inspirational, Encouragement, Stars

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• Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Success, Congratulations

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 24, 2016

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• There is nothing like a fixed, steady aim, with an honorable purpose. It dignifies your nature, and insures your success.

  Nelson Mandela

  Purpose, Fixed, Honorable

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• The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Success, Men, Ends

  "How they succeeded: life stories of successful men told by themselves". Book by Orison Swett Marden (Chapter 2), 1901.

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• Slow but steady wins the race.

  Aesop

  Winning, Race, Literature

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables”, p.23, Aesop

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• Love is our steady guide on this road full of hardships.

  Rumi

  Love Is, Hardship, Guides

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• Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.

  Ieyasu Tokugawa

  Steps, Slow And Steady

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• In perplexities-when we cannot tell what to do, when we cannot understand what is going on around us, let us be calmed and steadied and made patient by the thought that what is hidden from us is not hidden from Him

  Frances Ridley Havergal

  Encouraging, God, Religious

  Frances Ridley Havergal (1887). “My King, Or, Daily Thoughts for the King's Children”

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• To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

  Anna Louise Strong

  Love, Dream, Missing Someone

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• Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.

  Edmund Burke

  Air, Law, Uniforms

  "Three Letters to a Member of Parliament on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France" (1796 - 1797)

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• Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

  Tryon Edwards

  Strength, Chains That Bind, Broken

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" by Tryon Edwards, New York, Cassell publishing company, (p. 212), 1891.

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• Genius is the ability to hold one's vision steady until it becomes reality

  Benjamin Franklin

  Reality, Vision, Genius

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• Remember, slow and steady wins the race.

  Ieyasu Tokugawa

  Winning, Race, Fables

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• Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

  Phillips Brooks

  Character, Long, Made

  Phillips Brooks (1906). “The More Abundant Life: Lenten Readings”

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• Rising genius always shoots forth its rays from among clouds and vapours, but these will gradually roll away and disappear, as it ascends to its steady and meridian lustre.

  Washington Irving

  Clouds, Lust, Rays

  "The Analectic Magazine".

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• Focus your attention on the center of your forehead. Visualize that there is a slow but steady swirl of white light there. Visualize that the white light above your forehead is slowly moving in a clockwise direction.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Light

  Frederick Lenz (2014). “Snowboarding to Nirvana: A Novel”, p.103, St. Martin's Press

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• I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look.

  Lauren Bacall

  Nerves, Looks, Way

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• Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Character, Impulse, Continuance

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• God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  God, Believe, Doe

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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