Firmness Quote by John Donne

If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them…

— Aristotle

What is it that makes all of us end each day with the sense that we have not lived our time, but have been…

— Jacob Needleman

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

— Francis Quarles

And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have…

— Frederic Bastiat

“Beginning in itself has no value, it is an end which makes beginning meaningful, we must end what we begun.”

— Amit Kalantri

Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness…

— John Donne

Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness…

— John Donne

If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no show To move,…

— John Donne

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it,…

— Thomas Jefferson

The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the…

— Robert Toombs

“Develop flexibility and you will be firm; cultivate yielding and you will be strong.”

— Liezi

In respect to foresight and firmness, the people are more prudent, more stable, and have better judgement than princes.

— Niccolo Machiavelli