Quotes About Constancy

The promise of constancy, once given, binds its maker for as long as the power to stand by the decision survives and the understanding of the issue has not changed so fundamentally as to render the commitment obsolete.….

A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship,it must be maintained, and with far more devotion than the truth,which carries on being carelessly true without any help.By contrast, my lie needed as much as I needed it, and so demanded the constancy of wedlock : Till death do us part.

In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.

Si, sono contenta che tu sia rimasto lo stesso. Se t'avessero spostato, ridipinto, piantato sul margine d'un'altra strada, non avrei avuto più nulla di fisso per orientarmi. Tu mi sei indispensabile: io cambio; tu, è inteso che resti immutabile ed io misuro i miei cambiamenti in rapporto a te.

the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

It speaks volumes for a person that when placed in quite different situations, they display the same spirit of moderation.

These books are always there for me. All of them are there for me. My life changes all the time, but books don't change.

What we're going to do is be there for each other. We are going to be honest and we are going to share our lives and we are going to make mistakes, often with each other's feelings. But we are going to be there. Day in, day out. Because I don't want you to be my date, A. I don't want you to be in my life and back out of it. I want you to be my constant. That, to me, is the whole point of love -Rhiannon

That kind of inability to improve is really very rare. That kind of consistency is miraculous, in a way.

BEST FRIENDS are like Stars... You don't always see Them, but you know they are always there

He who rules by moral force is like the pole-star, which remains in its place while all the lesser stars do homage to it.

Only memories stay the same, young lad. Everything else changes

R. L. S. put it like this: 'Let it be enough for faith that the whole creation groans in mortal frailty, strives with unconquerable constancy.

A intensidade do amor era a mesma; a diferença é que a chama perdera o tresloucado dos primeiros dias para constituir-se um simples feixe de raios, tranquilo e constante, como nos casamentos.

Remember me and bare in mind a faithful girl is hard to find, this is always good and true, so don't go changing old for new!

I am resolved in that my greatest contribution to society, having never been a vagrant, assassin, or otherwise impassioned ne'er do well, is consistency.

The four Cs as secret of my success-curiosity, confidence,courage and constancy.

There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause.

The thing I've found about exciting is that it's like fireworks. A big burst of color. It takes your breath away, and then nothing. But something that's always there, while it might not be as exciting, like the stars in the sky, they can still steal your breath.

In times as turbulent as these, but also in the seeming humdrum of daily life, which always proved to be more meaningful and consequential in retrospect, each of us needed to rely on people of constant character and truths that were immutable.

The first oath sworn by two creatures of flesh and blood was at the foot of a rock that was turning into dust. They called upon the heavens (which are never the same from one instant to the next) to witness their constancy. Although everything inside them and outside of them was changing, they believed their hearts to be immune to change. Oh children! You are still children…

c'est la magie de la constance, la plus difficile et la plus rare de nos vertus.

El primer juramento que se hicieron dos seres de carne y hueso fue al pie de una roca que se deshacía en polvo; pusieron por testigo de su constancia a un cielo que no es el mismo ni un solo instante; todo pasaba en ellos y en torno a ellos y creían sus corazones libres de vicisitudes. ¡Oh, niños, siempre niños...!

It's a rare plant," he said, touching the sprig in my open hand. "Flowers, fruit and leaves all together at the one time. The white flowers are for honor, and red fruit for courage—and the green leaves are for constancy.