Stubborness we deprecate, Firmness we condone, The former is our neighbors trait, The latter is our own. — John Wooden Copy Share Image
[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
That which is called firmness in a king is called obstinacy in a donkey. — Lord Erskine Copy Share Image
“ Real firmness is good for every thing— Strut is good for nothing.” — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Develop flexibility and you will be firm; cultivate yielding and you will be strong.” — Liezi Copy Share Image
A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Parents should have perfect control over their own spirits, and with mildness and yet firmness bend the will of the child until… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I have twice met Jeffrey Archer, and on both occasions was struck by the firmness of his handshake - and the way… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character… — George Washington Copy Share Image
A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Nonviolence means an ocean of compassion. It means shedding from us every trace of ill will for others. It does not mean… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The practice of yogasana for the sake of health, to keep fit, or to maintain flexibility is the external practice of yoga.… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope,… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The vigour of government is essential to the security of liberty. . . . a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Take delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because it is… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As to sagacity, I should say that his judgement respecting the warmest place and the softest cushion in a room is infallible,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Obstinacy, sir, is certainly a great vice; and in the changeful state of political affairs it is frequently the cause of great… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Good constitutions are formed upon a comparison of the liberty of the individual with the strength of government: If the tone of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is by far the safer course to lay [considerations of the future] altogether aside; and to confine our attention wholly to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to… — John Donne Copy Share Image
We have been through, over these years, some difficult times. During the period that I have served as President of the United… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The strengths landscape architecture draws from its garden design heritage include: the Vitruvian design tradition of balancing utility, firmness and beauty; use… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
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