Constancy Quote by Michel de Montaigne Download Open image “And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.” — Michel de Montaigne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Constancy Obstinacy Stability Stubbornness Vigor
Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is something in obstinacy which differs from every other passion; whenever it fails it never recovers, but either breaks like iron or crumbles… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Whatever is genuine in social relations endures, despite of time, error, absence, and destiny; and that which has no inherent vitality had better die… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne 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 I started… — Maria Bello Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson 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 give themselves… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Even gods decay. Like, in 1890 somebody sold off thousands of mummified Ancient Egyptian sacred cats - _for fertilizer_. Get the point? Constancy isn't.” — Jonathan Gash Copy Share Image
Prayer is the pulse of the renewed soul; and the constancy of its beat is the test and measure of the spiritual life. — Octavius Winslow 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 that what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Feeling the security and constancy of love from a spouse, a parent or a child is a rich blessing. Such love nurtures and sustains… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
But keeping secrets is a discipline. I never use to think of myself as a good liar, but after having had some practice I… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
