Quotes of Steadfast - somelinesforyou

“ Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were a cause indeed to weep. ”

- William C. Bryant

“ The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. ”

- Mark Twain

“ There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics — none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high. ”

- Thomas H. Huxley

“ Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star. ”

- Logan Pearsall Smith

“ Some people say Liz and I are whores, but we are saints. We do not hide our loves hypocritically, and when in love, we are loyal and faithful to our men. ”

- Ava Gardner

“ The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family. ”

- Lee Iacocca

“ Become addicted to constant and never-ending self improvement. ”

- Anthony J. D’Angelo

“ The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain. ”

- Samuel Beckett

“ Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ To be once in doubt Is once to be resolved. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ We are truly indefatigable in providing for the needs of the body, but we starve the soul. ”

- Ellen Wood

“ Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals. ”

- Jim Rohn

“ Easy on the throttle, steady on the gears, roll her over gently and she'll last for many years. ”

- Unknown

“ Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally. America needed our help, and we had to give it. ”

- Adam Michnik

“ Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through. ”

- Harriet Tubman

“ When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow more loyal to situations and to types. ”

- Cyril Connolly

“ The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors. ”

- Charles Peguy

“ Desire to know why, and how - curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge - exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure. ”

- Thomas Hobbes

“ The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider — and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation — persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree. ”

- Alexander Graham Bell

“ Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. ”

- Germaine Greer

“ Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait — not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and persistent work of men willing to be co-workers with God, and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ The age looks steadily to the redressing of wrong, to the righting of every form of error and injustice, and a tireless… philanthropy, which… is one of the most hopeful Characteristics of our time. ”

- Mary Livermore

“ Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders? ”

- John Updike

“ The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country. ”

- James Wolfe

“ Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius. ”

- Edward Bulwer Lytton

“ Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded. ”

- Goethe

“ Be steadfast, immovable, always excelling. ”

- The Bible
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