Steady Quotes - Page 9

• Nothing but widespread suffering will produce any effect on Congress... Our only safety is in pursuing a steady course of firm restriction - and I have no doubt that such a course will ultimately lead to restoration of the currency and the re-charter of the bank.

  Nicholas Biddle

  Safety, Doubt, Suffering

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• It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from the land of the Pashtuns, where desertification proceeds at a steady, implacable crawl even in the consciences and intellects of men.

  Yasmina Khadra

  Men, Land, Decay

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• I'm a guy who never wanted to hold a steady job, because I was worried about the monotony.

  Noah Wyle

  Jobs, Guy, Worried

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• Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can't wait to get to work in the morning. I've got steady jobs, I've got my health, and I'm here in the greatest city in the world. I'd be a pig not to be grateful

  Christopher Meloni

  Morning, Jobs, Hate

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• You must not fall. / When you lose your balance, resist for a long time before turning yourself toward the earth. Then jump. / You must not force yourself to stay steady. You must move forward.

  Philippe Petit

  Moving, Fall, Long

  Philippe Petit (1985). “On the High Wire”, Random House Incorporated

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• A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.

  Jackie Cooper

  Running, Jobs, Nice

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• I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.

  Avril Lavigne

  Motivational, Jobs, Car

  Exclusive Avril Lavigne Interview, Slide 5, www.seventeen.com. April 18, 2011.

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• Listen, I'm not cool. Being cool is about keeping your blood pressure steady. So no. Don't be cool. Be passionate. Be dedicated. Be tenacious. Be uncompromising. Be pissed. Be happy. Be sad.

  Justin Timberlake

  Blood, Passionate, Pressure

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• Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Spiritual, Determination, Realization

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• I drove nice cars, I got a nice house. But now I'm steady missing you like a strikeout

  Drake

  Break Up, Breakup, Nice

  Song: Missin' You

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• And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonnet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Eye, Men

  Ulysses S. Grant, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Crane, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle: Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.2829, Modern Library

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• The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of superior genius.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Focus, Attention, Genius

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• Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Way

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2061, Manonmani Publishers

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• Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural selection alone and unaided could have drawn all the music of the biosphere. In effect natural selection operates upon the products of chance and can feed nowhere else; but it operates in a domain of very demanding conditions, and from this domain chance is barred. It is not to chance but to these conditions that eveloution owes its generally progressive cource, its successive conquests, and the impresssion it gives of a smooth and steady unfolding.

  Jacques Monod

  Science, Acceptance, Giving

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• Let me tell you what is coming. After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives you may win Southern independence, but I doubt it. The North is determined to preserve this Union. They are not a fiery, impulsive people as you are, for they live in colder climates. But when they begin to move in a given direction, they move with the steady momentum and perseverance of a mighty avalanche.

  Sam Houston

  Perseverance, War, Moving

  "Sam Houston". Book by James L. Haley, p. 397, 2004.

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• Since the birth of our nation, the steady performance of the Marine Corps in fighting America's battles has made it the very symbol of military excellence. The Corps has come to be recognized worldwide as an elite force of fighting men, renowned for their physical endurance, for their high level of obedience, and for the fierce pride they take, as individuals, in the capacity for self discipline.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Military, Fighting, Pride

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• Our nation is somewhat sad, but we're angry. There's a certain level of blood lust, but we won't let it drive our reaction. We're steady, clear-eyed and patient, but pretty soon we'll have to start displaying scalps.

  George W. Bush

  Peace, War, Blood

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• Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Love, Freedom, Passion

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• Inside I'm treading waters steady tryna swim ashore.

  Drake

  Success, Humble, Swimming

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• Life is always rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.

  E. B. White

  Pregnancy, Motherhood, Waiting

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• If the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining freedom, it will be because men will gradually bring themselves to deal with political, as they now deal with scientific questions.

  Thomas Huxley

  Men, Self, Political

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2006). “Huxley's Autobiography and Essays”, p.234, Cosimo, Inc.

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• My good now flows to me in a steady, unbroken, ever-increasing stream of success, happiness and abundance.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Success Happiness, Unbroken, Flow

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2013). “Your Word is Your Wand: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.10, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Self, Meditation, Mind

  Sri Ramana Maharshi (2016). “Words of Grace”, p.31, Sai ePublications

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• Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Life Lesson, Liberty, Life Is

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• The distinguishing part of our constitution is its liberty. To preserve that liberty inviolate, is the peculiar duty and proper trust of a member of the house of commons. But the liberty, the only liberty I mean, is a liberty connected with order, and that not only exists with order and virtue, but cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle.

  Edmund Burke

  Order, Government, Liberty

  "The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, in Three Volumes".

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