Quotes of Firmness - somelinesforyou

“ The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. ”

- Louis Pasteur

“ Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: "To rise above the little things. ”

- John Burroughs

“ There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“ Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery. ”

- Matthew

“ Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. ”

- Leonardo da Vinci

“ Fortunately, analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. ”

- Karen Horney

“ The one word that makes a good manager — decisiveness. ”

- Lee Iacocca

“ I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an Honest Man. ”

- George Washington

“ Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve. ”

- Robert Burns

“ It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing. ”

- Alexander Hamilton

“ The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things. ”

- Jilly Cooper

“ Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Resolve and thou art free. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Never tell your resolution beforehand. ”

- John Selden

“ There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“ The whole (global warming) thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability. ”

- Jerry Falwell

“ Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery. - Matthew Arnold. ”

- Matthew

“ The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Never try to outstubborn a cat. ”

- Robert Anson Heinlein

“ Men can do all things if they will. ”

- Leon Battista Alberti

“ Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. ”

- Karen Horney

“ He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay. ”

- Robert Burton

“ Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ To have willpower in life is important because life can be difficult. ”

- Unknown

“ We waited too long to resolve this,... Negotiations went sideways, and then up and down. ”

- Jeff Koons
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