Quotes About Stability

What makes for the good society is a sound economy. Without it, all the rest falls apart.

A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated.

All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.

Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or what you will; in business, of course, it's profit.

I believe when there are so many forces pulling our society apart, we need more commitment to marriage, not less.

Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.

Believe God's love and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your rock is Christ, and it is not the rock that ebbs and flows but the sea.

What you need to do is build the house you will live in. You build that house by laying a solid foundation: by building physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health.

As a mountain is unshaken by the wind, so the heart of a wise person is unmoved by all the changes on this earth.

Go with the flow, but pray God keeps you afloat.

Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried away by them as to fall ill when in good health.

Any violence which does not spring from a spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain. It lacks the stability which can only rest in a fanatical outlook.

Make sure you stand firm on the solid rock.

My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.

Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of government.

No social stability without individual stability.

We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.

But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art.

The only truly consistent are the dead.

La felicidad real siempre aparece escuálida por comparación con las compensaciones que ofrece la desdicha. Y, naturalmente , la estabilidad no es, ni con mucho, tan espectacular como la inestabilidad. Estar satisfecho de todo no posee el encanto que supone mantener una lucha justa contra la infelicidad, ni el pintorequismo del combate contra la tentación o contra una pasión fatal o una duda. La felicidad nunca tiene grandeza

Of course it does. Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.

Ford's in his flivver; all's well with the world.

Stability," insisted the Controller, "stability. The primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence all this.