Constancy Quotes
100 quotes by 80 authors
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Constancy of purpose is the first principle of success.
— Napoleon Hill
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The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he…
— John Steinbeck
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A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me.
— Confucius
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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
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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
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The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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...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
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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
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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
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Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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— Sri Chinmoy
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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
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Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together; And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather.
— John Suckling
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The heart grows weary after a little Of what it loved for a little while.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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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
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It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.
— Samuel Johnson
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Constancy Quotes
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