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With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right. — Abraham Lincoln

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

Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful. — Samuel Johnson

Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice. — H.L. Mencken

In respect to foresight and firmness, the people are more prudent, more stable, and have better judgement than princes. — Niccolo Machiavelli

When you star arises, your cloud of opposition awakens — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

You have to be firm, persistent, passionate, and driven by the idea and have a strong desire to bring your product to the market — Sunday Adelaja

The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness. — Robert Blair

But, through it all, I continue to stand in the firmness of my foundation, and follow the light of the sun to my divine destiny — C.M. Krishack

Firmness of purpose is one of the best instruments of success. — Lord Chesterfield

Fasting (is) for the maintainance and firmness of your sincerity. — Fatima Bint Muhammad

That profound firmness which enabler a man to regard difficulties but as evils to be surmounted, no matter what shape they may assume. — Charles Caleb Colton

Stubbornness leads to strong will. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Firmness is great; persistency is greater. — Ninon De L'Enclos

Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness. — George Washington

There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character. — William Hazlitt

You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion. — Bryant McGill

Since when is failure more appealing? Never give up. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness. — Charles Caleb Colton

Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister. — Mahatma Gandhi

Stubborness we deprecate,
Firmness we condone,
The former is our neighbors trait,
The latter is our own. — John Wooden

I know no real worth but that tranquil firmness which seeks dangers by duty, and braves them without rashness. — Stanislaw Leszczynski

The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul. — Tryon Edwards

Stubbornness is not firmness. — Friedrich Schiller

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve. — Robert Burns

Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness. — Jim Elliot

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. — George Washington

Firmness in support of fundamentals, with flexibility in tactics and methods, is the key to any hope of progress in negotiation. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is only dislocated minds whose movements are spasmodic. — Robert Aris Willmott

Remember that though humility, without firmness, may be cowardly, yet courage without humility is presumptuous. — Marie Angelique Arnauld

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing. — Alexander Hamilton

There is a natural firmness in some minds, which cannot be unlocked by trifles, but which, when unlocked, discovers a cabinet of fortitude. — Thomas Paine

There is a pleasant firmness of tone when one is in harmony with oneself. Even when it's a weak ethic one is resonating with. — Peter Hoeg

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Stand firm and immovable as an anvil when it is beaten upon. — Ignatius Of Loyola

As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it is enunciated. — A. N. Wilson

And we, from the whole of our life experience there, have concluded that there is only one way to withstand violence: with firmness. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight. — Henry Wotton

Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intellect, and benevolence of spirit. — B.K.S. Iyengar

E Concrematio. Confirmatio--out ot the fire comes firmness, through stress we pass to strength. — Charles F. Binns

As yet, little Dora was quite unconscious of my desperate firmness, otherwise than as my letters darkly shadowed it forth. But — Charles Dickens

[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness. — Madame De Stael

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Men listened closer to calm tones than to the loudest shouts, so long as firmness and certainty accompanied the calm. — Robert Jordan

Thy firmness makes my circle just,
and makes me end where I begun. — John Donne

Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing. — Alexander Hamilton

Let me show you firmness of my belief. — Alan Moore

Develop flexibility and you will be firm; cultivate yielding and you will be strong. — Liezi

The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness. — Sydney J. Harris

[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people. — Thomas Jefferson

It is necessary to grow up in maturity, firmness and courage in order to reach the goal — Sunday Adelaja

The Communist leaders respect only firmness and have contempt for persons who continually give in to them. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A vow imparts stability, ballast and firmness to one's character. — Mahatma Gandhi