Quotes About Firmness

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphans; to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."—Last Words of President Lincoln's Second Inaugural.

There comes a time when to be uncompromising is the only realistic course.

The good mamas are often tough mamas.

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

The heavens listen to what is said on these cobbles. Laws of man and nature come together here. Here you must be firm. Here you must be true.

I like terra firma - the more firma the less terra.

with a whim of iron.

No changing your mind.

La prudencia y la firmeza de un pequeño número de personas pueden llegar a cansar y a dominar incluso a numerosos ejércitos.

Once you stand anywhere, you turn to stone

On the rock of Christ I stand, all other ground is sinking sand.

There is something elevated in the female spirit that will always hold a woman back from the coldest and most vicious forms of villainy.' 'No, there isn't,' Miss Kitely said kindly but firmly, as she set a dish in his hand.

You cannot build a superstructure on a cracked foundation.

It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil--to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them. Controlled with firmness, guided by discretion, and hallowed by the imagination, the passions are the vivifiers and quickeners of our being. Without passion there can be no energy of character. Indeed, the passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways, and dangerous only in one--through their excess.

For me it was just about staying the course, staying true to who I believe that I am, being open, being honest, being transparent with the players, being firm with the players but at the same time listening to the players.

In my dealings with these people, it has been my aim to be, in the first place, Just. In the second place, Firm. In the third place, Kind.

Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.

Loving-kindness is required, but a follower of Christ-just like the Master-will be firm in the truth.

Love askes faith, and faith firmenesse.

Other men are strong like bricks - firm, unyielding, but if you pound on them long enough, they crack. You... you're strong like the wind. Always there, so willing to bend, but never apologetic for the times when you must be firm.

Parents should have perfect control over their own spirits, and with mildness and yet firmness bend the will of the child until it shall expect nothing else but to yield to their wishes.

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.

Mientras se encaminaba en dirección norte para regresar a casa, se le ocurrió que, quizás, si anunciaba ante el universo, con la suficiente firmeza, que había abandonado toda esperanza, al final aparecería algo.

Be polite, be kind, but be firm if you are clear that the idea in question will deplete you. Your ability to say no without justifying your decisions might be one of the least developed but most powerful tools women can learn.