Quotes About Constancy

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

All things in it are in constant motion - the earth, the rocks of the caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt - both within the common motion and with their own. Stability itself is nothing but a more languid motion.

I looked up ivy in The Meanings of Flowers. The clinging vine stood for "fidelity.

Women are never tired of bewailing man's fickleness in love, but they only seem to snub his constancy.

To sorrow I bade good morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly; She is so constant to me, and so kind. I would deceive her, And so leave her, But ah! she is so constant and so kind

There are men whose hearts insist upon a dogged fidelity to some image or cause thrown by chance into their keeping, long after their judgment has pronounced it no rarity—even the reverse, indeed, and without them the band of the worthy is incomplete.

Women are never tired of bewailing man's fickleness in love, but they only seem to snub his constancy.

Mantenere l'equilibrio di fronte alla fatalità, sopportare con grazia le condizioni avverse è più di una semplice costanza: è un atto di aggressione, un vero trionfo.

Lean principles focus on how to create value for the customer through systems thinking by creating constancy of purpose, embracing scientific thinking, creating flow and pull (versus push), assuring quality at the source, leading with humility, and respecting every individual.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Weep not that the world changes- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were a cause indeed to weep.

Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and goodwill. We trust those who have our best interests at heart, and mistrust those who seem deaf to our concerns.

The planets are never the same twice, they're always different, so they could compare the markings I had drawn with their current photographs and they knew that I was drawing what I was really seeing and it wasn't copied from somewhere.

At the heart of my life is the idea that I don't ever want anything to ever change. That's the basic tenet.

Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times.

I'm still the same guy you knew five minutes ago.

the same—on this page, or the end of your fingertips—always the same

When everything else is shattering, you feel like the one true constant.

He has all the characteristics of a dog - except loyalty.

Consistency is all I ask!

They used to dream of steamer trunks and hounds with heirloom markings and lives that were both ever-changing and constant. Lives like forge fires.

times may change, but men do not.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.