Quotes of Steady - somelinesforyou

“ True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriend's boyfriends — and he accepts it. ”

- Larry McMurtry

“ The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States. ”

- Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“ We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole… ”

- Peace Pilgrim

“ Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. ”

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“ Slow and steady wins the race. ”

- Aesop

“ Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver. ”

- Sophocles

“ He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended. ”

- Edward R. Murrow

“ Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. ”

- Mary Shelley

“ For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort. ”

- Joseph Conrad

“ Slow and steady wins the race, then wastes no time grinding salt-caked glass in your open wounds. ”

- Randal Keith Milholland

“ We need a steady stream of cash. The American people have been uncommonly generous. ”

- Bill Clinton

“ A determinate purpose of life, and steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages, are indispensable conditions of success. ”

- William Morley Punshon

“ Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance. ”

- C. H. Parkhurst

“ Constants aren't. ”

- John Peers

“ For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull. ”

- Ralph Nader

“ Great mischief comes from attempts to steady other people's altars. ”

- Mary Baker Eddy

“ It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work — the night watchman. ”

- Tallulah Bankhead

“ It's the steady, constant driving to the goal for which you're striving, not the speed with which you travel, that will make your victory sure. ”

- Unknown

“ Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady sifting, some of them will turn into friends. ”

- John Hay

“ Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interest of mankind to any narrow interest of their own. ”

- Woodrow T. Wilson

“ Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. ”

- Adlai E. Stevenson

“ Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions. ”

- George F. Will

“ Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster. ”

- Washington Irving

“ Soon after a heart-wrung decision, something inevitably occurs to cast doubt on your choice. Holding steady against that doubt usually proves your decision. ”

- R. I. Fitzhenry

“ Steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and cheerful as a cricket. ”

- Martha Washington

“ Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim . ”

- Eileen Caddy

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

- Jim Rohn

“ 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

“ The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune. ”

- Thomas a Kempis

“ To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. ”

- William Hazlitt
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