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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
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
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
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
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