Constancy Quotes

100 quotes by 80 authors

Constancy of purpose is the first principle of success. — Napoleon Hill
The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. Itâ€™s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he… — John Steinbeck
A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me. — Confucius
I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminato ry "making out" and "sleeping around,"… — Elisabeth Elliot
It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for… — Winston Churchill
The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
...the sounds next door served as a kind of trip wire: I seemed to stumble and fall on my face, skinning and bruising myself here… — John Cheever
My God, Sweetness beyond words, make bitter all the carnal comfort that draws me from love of the eternal and lures me to its evil… — Thomas a Kempis
God allows us to give rise to the practice of two beautiful virtues: perseverance, which leads us to attain the goal, and constancy, which helps… — Vincent de Paul
Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres. — Leonardo da Vinci
The secret of inner success is constancy to our highest character. - — Sri Chinmoy
I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be… — Sarah Fielding
Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability. — Michel de Montaigne
Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together; And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather. — John Suckling
The heart grows weary after a little Of what it loved for a little while. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson
Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the majority will extend… — Edmund Burke
The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the… — Anton Chekhov

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