Quotes About Steadiness

I try never to get too high or too low. You have to keep that medium.

I've always enjoyed things going at a nice pace, nothing too fast, nothing too crazy.

It's nice to have someone at the helm who can give you piece of mind and does not panic.

In this unsettled world, it is good to have this steadiness—the Christmas Eve service, the peal of the bell, the star atop the Peacocks' silo, the saints burdened with concern. There is a holiness to memory, a sense of God's presence in these mangers of the mind. Which might explain why it is that the occasions that change the least are often the very occasions that change us the most.

Not much can really shake me.

Americans tend to prefer their presidents on horseback: heroes who dream big and sound trumpets. There is, however, another kind of leader – quieter and less glamorous but no less significant – whose virtues repay our attention. There is greatness in political lives dedicated more to steadiness than to boldness, more to reform than to revolution, more to management of complexity than to the making of mass movements.

Monotony is the awful reward of the careful.

Few persons appreciate the steadiness and courage required, when all around is in flight and confusion, for a force to advance steadily to the post of danger in front and meet the exulting enemy. Such men are heroes, and far more worthy of honor than those who fight in the full blaze of successful warfare.

Good acting is consistency of performance.

One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either.

These Norsemen are excellent persons in the main, with good sense, steadiness, wise speech, and prompt action. But they have a singular turn for homicide; their chief end of man is to murder or to be murdered;

Similarly, in whatever enterprise you find yourself, practice predictability. Never impose your mood swings on your associates and customers.

Not timid, not even hopeless, but steady and holding its place. Refusing to pull back from the world.

Plodding wins the race.

My biggest pet peeve is rushing.

You never wanna rise to the top too fast in anything.

If you want to be successful, you need consistency and if you don't have it, you've got no chance.

I always try to keep calm.

As a manager, I have to keep calm.

You must have a good structure, and not just change things based on pressure and need for a result.

Is it 'good' to go on doing the same old oblivious thing, to still enjoy it no matter what? Does perseverance steady the world?

There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.

What we opprobriously call stupidity, though not an enlivening quality in common society, is nature's favorite resource for preserving steadiness of conduct and consistency of opinion.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.