Quotes About Steadfastness

What people see as fearlessness is really persistence.

If this could be repeated every day for a year, I would never budge from where I stood.

We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.

If you can keep your head while all those about you are losing theirs, then perhaps you have misunderstood the situation.

I will go on quietly and slowly, but I will go on firmly, and with a certainty of success.

Be as a tower firmly set Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

I stand and I do not fall!" he shouted. "I stand and I do not fall!

really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really,

Never, never, never, never, never give in—except to dictates of honor and good sense.

We can't give up. Ever.

True-blue, dyed-in-the-wool.

Remember, it's not "stand firm for the faith" but "stand firm in the faith." You've got to own it and live it.

God's Word doesn't change, the message doesn't shift. It can't be compromised in any way. It's where we stand firm.

The best way to avoid danger is to be in a capacity to withstand it.

Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.

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

It can never have understood why it was forced to live in such misery: bewildered by noise (as I imagine), distressed by smoke, barking dogs, cooking smells, teased by drunkards and children, tethered to fly on the shortest of chains. Yet even a child can see its dignity: thimble of bravery, all fluff and brittle bone. Not timid, not even hopeless, but steady and holding its place. Refusing to pull back from the world.

I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

There was no need to remind Roosevelt who controlled the senate. "I persistently refused to lose my temper," he recalled. "I merely explained good-humoredly that I had made up my mind." Though he steadfastly refused

What I had that others didn't was a capacity for sticking to it.

Tant que je vive, mon cueur ne changera Pour nulle vivante, tant soit elle bonne ou sage Forte et puissante, riche de hault lignaige Mon chois est fait, aultrene se fera *** Long as I live, my heart will never vary For no one else, however fair or good Brave, resolute, or rich, of gentle blood My choice is made, and I will have no other.

Arthur had almost given up. That is to say, he was not going to give up. He was absolutely not going to give up. Not now. Not ever. But if he had been the sort of person who was going to give up, this was probably the time he would have done it.

On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble.

Oh well," said Miss Marple, "it's just perseverance, isn't it, that leads to things.