Quotes About Steadiness

Canada will bring us power for the future, Scandinavia the character, the steadiness…It's the grand concept for survival…a union of know-how, that's us, with power and character.

Whatever comes cannot alter one thing.

Whether you win or lose, you need to stay on a level platform.

It was a lot to get used to, especially in warm-ups with the wind all over the place. As the meet went on it steadied out, so I was able to get some good looks to go back and train from.

I have always taken a step forward and believe that slow and steady wins the race.

Slow but steady wins the race.

I'm okay with the idea that slow and steady wins the race.

Life is a marathon and you have to pace yourself. I believe that slow and steady wins the race, so in that way, I've been training for a marathon my whole life.

The most important thing is to just stay constant and not get too high or too low.

The one thing that kids need is consistency.

The only thing that matters is that we stand firm.

The practice is simply this: keep coming back to your breath during the day. Just take a moment. This will give your mind a steadiness and your breath a gracefulness.... There's so much to let go of, isn't there? Your nostalgia and your regrets. Your fantasies and your fears. What you think you want instead of what is happening right now. Breathe.

You want your response to be the same for the easy things as for the harder things so that you don't reveal what's easy and what's hard by the way you answer.

What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities.

Thou must be like a promontory of the sea, against which though the waves beat continually, yet it both itself stands, and about it are those swelling waves stilled and quieted.

Be like a headland: the Waves beat against it continuously, but it stands fast and around it the boiling water dies down.

never to be in haste, and yet never slow:

Be like a promontory against which the waves are always breaking. It stands fast, and stills the waters that rage around it.

And they never have to win; they just have to keep not losing.

Equanimity can be hard to talk about.

Of course, I don't act in an extreme fashion in my day to day life. I don't think any of us live do. I think we all have that reserve somewhere and we pull upon it when we need it.

He knew what it was like to have lost belief in one's own excellence. One could not move through life without a measure of outward assurance any more than one could go about without a suit of clothes, but it needed a lot of practice before one could hold the thing steady outwardly while remaining inwardly aware that there was nothing to be assured about.

Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.

States as great engines move slowly.