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Quotes About Steady

Neither one has ever been awkward, clumsy, or hasty. They know the importance of not rushing.
~ Lydia Davis
I looked at her, as vivid in my doorway as the moon in the autumn sky. Her eyes held mine, gray and steady. It is a common saying that women are delicate creatures, flowers, eggs, anything that may be crushed in a moment's carelessness. If I had ever believed it, I no longer did.
~ Madeline Miller
I looked at her, as vivid in my doorway as the moon in the autumn sky. Her eyes held mind, gray and steady. It is a common saying that women are delicate creatures, flowers, eggs, anything that may be crushed in a moment's carelessness. If I had every believed it, I no longer did.
~ Madeline Miller
Inch by inch it's all a cinch, by the yard it's hard. Go for it -- no matter how slow or long the process seems at first.
~ Mardi Ballou
Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.
~ Plutarch
In a few minutes I heard the books' voices: a low, steady, unsupressible hum. I'd heard it many times before. I've always had a finely tuned ear for a library's accumulations of echo and desire. Libraries are anything but hushed.
~ Unknown
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained
~ Unknown
Some damn fools say they ain't a God! Some damn fools! Something for nothing. That's what He gives! Steady
~ Max Brand
There was a new simplicity to what I did, a door that had opened before me to worlds I had not imagined. From where I sat, if you watched carefully you could marvel at it, like the impossible birth of a cottonseed or the slow rise of a wooden house: the steady construction of a man, built brick by brick from the shadow of a boy.
~ Unknown
Slow is not a dirty word.
~ Unknown
Fast takes longer when you hurry. Keep calm and saunter on.
~ Mike Dooley
Betty took him for a walk in the zoo and he was amused by her evident belief in the curative power of animals. She seemed to think that it must steady him to look at a buffalo.
~ Nathanael West
A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
Earthseed deals with ongoing reality, not with supernatural authority figures. Worship is no good without action. With action, it's only useful if it steadies you, focuses your efforts, eases your mind.
~ Octavia E. Butler
It is not a blessing that you pass on, or an experience that you share with others, but a river that continually flows through you. Stay at the Source, closely guarding your faith in Jesus Christ and your relationship to Him, and there will be a steady flow into the lives of others with no dryness or deadness whatsoever.
~ Oswald Chambers
I'm so grounded, it's sad.
~ Patti LaBelle
Now an extraordinary and helpful fact is that by making Mind the object of our attention, not only does the serenity which is its nature begin to well up of its own accord but its steady unchanging character itself helps spontaneously to repel all disturbing thoughts.
~ Paul Brunton