Constancy Quotes

• The secret of making dreams come true can be summarized in four C's.They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy; and the greatest of these is Confidence.

  Walt Disney

  Trust, Dream, True Friend

  Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.55, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Intelligent, Doe, Persevere

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.251, GENERAL PRESS

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• Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.

  Joseph Addison

  Friendship Love, World, Virtue

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1831). “Tatler and Guardian”, p.333

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• The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Motivational, Happiness, Success

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

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• Constancy is the complement of all the other human virtues.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Consistency, Virtue, Humans

  "Life & Writings of Joseph Mazzini".

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• Constancy of purpose is the first principle of success.

  Napoleon Hill

  Principles, Purpose, Firsts

  Napoleon Hill, Judith Williamson (2008). “Timeless Thoughts for Today”, p.131, Jaico Publishing House

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• I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.

  Richard Nelson Bolles

  Work, Life Changing, Needs

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• Nothing that you plan is going to work out. Everything is going to be totally different than the way you expected. And things will constantly challenge you. Wherever you look the world is not as solid it seems to be.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Loving Life, Hard Times

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• Love is fostered by confidence and constancy; he who is able to give much is able also to love much.

  Propertius

  Inspirational, Love Is, Giving

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• O constancy, be strong upon my side,
  Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue!
  I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Heart, Men

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 4, l. 6

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• Why God should want and need us is a mystery. But it is true: otherwise he would not have created us and life would ultimately have no meaning for us. It is good to remember that in God the is a constancy, a consistency of attitude which never changes, irrespective of what we are or how we act: he never changes in is wanting us or needing us.

  Basil Hume

  Attitude, Consistency, Needs

  Basil Hume (2002). “Searching for God”, p.100, Gracewing Publishing

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• The secret of inner success is constancy to our highest character. -

  Sri Chinmoy

  Character, Secret, Highest

  Sri Chinmoy (1972). “Eternity's breath: aphorisms and essays”

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• It was chilling to realize that the sentimental qualities most valued between people, like loyalty, constancy, and affection, are the ones most likely to impede change.

  Ted Simon

  Loyalty, People, Society

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• Prayer is the pulse of the renewed soul; and the constancy of its beat is the test and measure of the spiritual life.

  Octavius Winslow

  Spiritual, Prayer, Soul

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• The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy

  Thomas Bulfinch

  Sunflower, Emblems

  Thomas Bulfinch (2013). “Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Fable”, p.164, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, & intellect & feeling are only important in so far as they contribute to that.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Feelings, Important, Matter

  "The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill".

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• Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

  Thomas Browne

  Causes, Stubbornness, Obstinacy

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 1, sect. 25

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• Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Gold, Noble, Affliction

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• O heaven! were man, But constant, he were perfect.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Men, Perfect

  'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 5, sc. 4, l. 110

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• The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wise, Heart, Consistency

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• Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; 'Tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Beauty, Genius, Mediocrity

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.144

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• Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Believe, Men

  Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.55, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Somehow, I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. The special secret it seems to me is summarized in four C's. They are Curiosity, Courage, Confidence and Constancy. And the greatest of all is Confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

  Walt Disney

  Motivational, Positive, Success

  "Perceive This! : How to Get Everything You Want Out of Life by Changing Your Perceptions". Book by Kevin A. Martin, 2004.

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• That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other.

  Isaac Barrow

  Integrity, Men, Mind

  Isaac Barrow (1861). “The Works of Isaac Barrow”, p.144

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• Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times.

  Federica Montseny

  Years, Democracy, Spain

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