Quotes About Stability

All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.

When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.

LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers - particularly to those who love not wisely but other men's wives.

A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on.

A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.

Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.

A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose.

That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.

I'm looking for men who can give me security.

Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.

The President so far has struck me as a man who is trying hard to keep his balance. He certainly has been very receptive to all my efforts in these directions.

Methods can become an obstacle to abiding in non-dual awareness if the practitioner believes that one must use the practice to renounce something or transform something. Practices are only used to connect to the natural state and stabilize in it.

Empathy, attention, and calm provide a scaffold that steadies the teen's volatile emotions.

Tree pose grows confidence.

Fear is the foundation of safety.

Chaos, then, is the enemy of growth. Disorganization, sloppiness, and inattention generally introduce the kind of instability that weakens rather than strengthens. Where there is no order there will likely be little in the environment that sustains and nourishes. Life needs to be ordered.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

a ship without ballast is tossed hither and thither on the sea, so the chariot, without its accustomed weight, was dashed about as if empty. They

All great peoples are conservative.

Any the smallest alteration of my silent daily habits produces anarchy in me