Valor was in Nikodemos, unquestionable, and commitment like trees to stand or night to fall. — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Individualism? Narcissism? Of course. It is my strongest tendency, the only intentional constancy [fidelity] I am capable of… Besides, I am lying;… — Claude Cahun Copy Share Image
The older I grow, the more I realize how unfit we are for relationships. We are all such antagonists. It's part of… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
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… — John Donne Copy Share Image
It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
When you accurately perceive the fluidity of things, you can also begin to perceive the constancy behind them: the creative, transformative, boundless,… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Constancy is my true nature! I shall never look at another woman for the rest of my days, or rather, I shall… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
Nothing outside the will can hinder or harm the will; it can only harm itself. If then we accept this, and, when… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Saint Paul asks his disciple Timothy to "aim at faith" (2 Tim 2:22) with the same constancy as when he was a… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Surveying the available alternative energy sources for criteria such as energy density, environmental impacts, reliance on depleting raw materials, intermittency versus constancy… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
“He marveled at the strange blindness by which men, though they are so alert to what changes in themselves, impose on their… — Camus, Albert Copy Share Image
Sporadic and shallow dipping in the doctrine of Christ and partial participation in His restored Church cannot produce the spiritual transformation that… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
“And the stars: the sky gets crowded at night, and it is a bit like watching a clock, seeing the constellations slide… — M.L. Stedman Copy Share Image
I do not wonder that, where the monastick life is permitted, every order finds votaries, and every monastery inhabitants. Men will submit… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
But keeping secrets is a discipline. I never use to think of myself as a good liar, but after having had some… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I am as true as truth's simplicity, And simpler than the infancy of truth. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Well, while I live I'll fear no other thing So sore as keeping safe Nerissa's ring. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Love is fostered by confidence and constancy; he who is able to give much is able also to love much. — Propertius Copy Share Image
For many there is a degree of constancy in our culture; London won't let you down. — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The mountain rill Seeks with no surer flow the far bright sea, Than my unchang'd affections flow to thee. — Benjamin Copy Share Image
The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
People who know the state of emptiness will always be able to dissolve their problems by constancy. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
O constancy, be strong upon my side, Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue! I have a man's mind, but… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image