Quotes About Steadfastness

What is the meaning of "strength"? It's to have a mind that does not sway, while continuing to move forward and charge.

Your strength is the strength of stones. Suddenly

What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck.

Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon.

When a man is in the right path, he must persevere.

No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.

Irresolute men are sometimes very persistent in their undertakings, because if they give up their designs they would have to make a second resolution.

The world is upside down, if you can keep your head while everyone around you is losing theirs and blaming it on you, then you will be a man, my son. One of the greatest lines ever written.

The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.

No life can surpass that of a man who quietly continues to serve God in the place where providence has placed him.

This is what is meant by being single-minded. If you choose something, choose it with all your might, with all your heart. Don't be faint-hearted. Keep going! Keep moving toward it. Be determined.

Well, I may get drunk, the Widow admitted, but I don't stagger. Sometimes I fall down. But I don't stagger.

I can't go on. I'll go on.

I'm going to stand in my truth no matter what.

I like to be consistent so I like to challenge myself with consistency.

Ask any of my brothers, nothing stops me. No one stops me. I got the name Steele because I'm unbending.

Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument just one more time, or of going one more round with a hostile or (much worse) indifferent audience.

Because thee remains there, it is easier for me to go, for thee can be the shore I look back on, the star that remains fixed. from The Last Runaway

Out of every kind of nervousness I didn't move.

Repetition encompasses consistency. Finish what you start. Mean what you say. And don't say one thing and do something else. Consistency is an important aspect of repetition.

Sunshine helps to make man patient.

You hang on," her mother said. "Until your hands are bleeding, and still you do not let go.

Somehow I keep going. If there's one thing I never do, it's stop.

Immutable. Unbearable but unbreakable.