Quotes
Quotes about Firmness
The Grave, dread thing!
Men shiver when thou 'rt named: Nature, appall'd,
Shakes off her wonted firmness.
With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan--to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work ;we are in.
That which is called firmness in a king is called obstinacy in a donkey.
Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.
The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
O God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level. and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea!
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.
