Quotes About Stability

Most important, the states had set up machinery to perpetuate the work and avert backsliding.

Rockefeller did not show any anxiety about the absence of security

I feel, therefore, that large sums of money are, in a sense, safer there than in other fields.

Washington possessed the outstanding judgment, sterling character, and clear sense of purpose needed to guide his sometimes wayward protégé; he saw that the volatile Hamilton needed a steadying hand.

that favored stability over innovation, predictability over experimentation

with a man. Three children walking stolidly

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He was no longer young, and not yet old. Mentally and physically he was up there on a broad plateau of common sense and maturity and peak capability. He was not behind schedule. He was not speeding. He was not drunk. He

in the recent past, as the pace of change has quickened, the calculus governing the benefits of embracing novelty has been dramatically altered. Today's society bestows rewards as never before upon those who are comfortable with change, and it may punish those who are not, for what used to be the safe terrain of stability is now often a dangerous minefield of stagnation.

Fix your course to a star and you can navigate through any storm

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Or so I tell myself, anyway.

All successful revolutionary leaders have to worry about how to stabilise the new regimes that they create. After the American Revolutionary War, the likes of Alexander Hamilton and Gouverneur Morris had argued for the establishment of a hereditary senate in a still insecure United States quite as fervently as Bolívar did in Venezuela;

constant budget crises, the going rate for protecting

The basic unit of any society is the home. When the home begins to break, the society is on the way to disintegration.

True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.

Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself.

Human fallibility recognised, Gods sovereignty trusted; these are also the only stable foundations for human beings in society.

A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.

It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society.

There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.

The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.