The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
There is nothing but death Our affections can sever, And till life's latest breath Love shall bind us for ever. — James Gates Percival Copy Share Image
Six, or at most seven, hours' sleep is, for a constancy, as much as you or anybody else can want; more is… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The slaves of custom and established mode, With pack-horse constancy we keep the road Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
We should measure affection, not like youngsters by the ardor of its passion, but by its strength and constancy. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
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… — Maria Bello Copy Share Image
To grasp life and meaning, we assume constancy where it does not exist. We name experiences, emotions, and subjective states and assume… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Constancy in love is of two sorts: One is the effect of new excellencies that are always presenting themselves afresh, and attractour… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, Than… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
(Title: To the Moon) Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which fixes our hearts successively to all the qualities of the person loved--sometimes admiring one… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Now the melancholy of God protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changable taffata, for thy mind is a very… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in… — Federica Montseny Copy Share Image
“O, swear not by the moon, th’ inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The Christian must stand fixed to his principles, and not change his habit; but freely show what countryman he is by his… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and goodwill. We trust… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
It was chilling to realize that the sentimental qualities most valued between people, like loyalty, constancy, and affection, are the ones most… — Ted Simon Copy Share Image
Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency,… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We must be… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Even gods decay. Like, in 1890 somebody sold off thousands of mummified Ancient Egyptian sacred cats - _for fertilizer_. Get the point?… — Jonathan Gash Copy Share Image
The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
In misfortune we often mistake dejection for constancy; we bear it without daring to look on it; like cowards, who suffer themselves… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Tempus never left a problem for another to solve. Tempus never let the pain or difficulty of an undertaking persuade him not… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
Don't forget, Riddler, how I love thee. Or all we shared together. Or that this sea and all other seas can lead… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
What seems real one moment is fiction the next and gone out of existence the moment after that. Nostalgia is the greatest… — David Budbill Copy Share Image
Rain puts a hole in stone because of its constancy, not its force. Just keep knocking on doors until the right one… — Joseph Gerber Copy Share Image
If ever thou shalt love, In the sweet pangs of it remember me; For such as I am all true lovers are,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff Believe a woman or an… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Discipline provides a constancy which is independent of what kind of day you had yesterday and what kind of day you anticipate… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
At a very basic level, people need to know that there is constancy in their jobs and, more broadly, in where the… — Tom Rath Copy Share Image
Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. The way of nature is unchanging. Knowing constancy is insight. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Though youth be past, and beauty fled, The constant heart its pledge redeems, Like box, that guards the flowerless bed And brighter… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
