Constant Quotes - Page 7

• The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Appreciate, Achievement

  64 Copy quote

• Let me give up the need to know why things happen as they do. I will never know and constant wondering is constant suffering.

  Caroline Myss

  Letting Go, Giving Up, Knowing

  FaceBook post by Caroline Myss from Feb 14, 2014

  159 Copy quote

  Show source

• No form remains permanently in a substance; a constant change takes place, one form is taken off and another is put on.

  Maimonides

  Taken, Substance, Form

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.1008, Moses Maimonides

  11 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

  Charles William Eliot

  Friendship, Happiness, Teacher

  "The Durable Satisfactions of Life (The Happy Life)". Book by Charles William Eliot (p. 37), 1910.

  83 Copy quote

  Show source

• Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.

  Indra Devi

  Freedom, Fear, Loneliness

  84 Copy quote

• The only thing constant in life is change

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Life, Motivational, Change

  25 Copy quote

• Justice is the constant and eternal purpose that renders to each his due.

  Justinian I

  Justice, Purpose, Politics

  42 Copy quote

• Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so as to form one individual, partaking equally in its adversity and prosperity.

  Confucius

  Adversity, Sacrifice, Race

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 46, 1895.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves fettered by it. Old friends might be compared to old married people without the tie of children.

  William Hazlitt

  Friendship, Children, Ties

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.493

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The iron ring is worn out by constant use.
  [Lat., Ferreus assiduo consumitur anulus usu.]

  Ovid

  Iron, Use, Action

  4 Copy quote
• 

  No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Book, Reading, House

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1870). “Little Pussy Willow”, p.66

  70 Copy quote

  Show source

• Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.

  Thucydides

  Human Nature, Humans, Human History

  49 Copy quote

• The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Growth, Decay

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.251, Xist Publishing

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.

  William Henry Harrison

  People, Liberty, Attention

  David A. Durfee, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, United States. President (1841-1845 : Tyler) (1970). “William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841: John Tyler, 1790-1862; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

  120 Copy quote

  Show source

• You always wonder whether the attacks on my capabilities came from an honest evaluation of my accomplishments or from stereotypical presumptions that we, people of color, just can't do it, for some reason. This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Color, Accomplishment, People

  Source: www.eldiariony.com

  64 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nothing is more certain than uncertainties: / Fortune is full of fresh variety; / Constant in nothing but inconstancy.

  Richard Barnfield

  Fortune, Certain, Inconstancy

  4 Copy quote

• Keep up your conjugal love in a constant heat and vigor. Love will suppress wrath: you cannot have a bitter mind upon small provocations, against those that you dearly love.

  Richard Baxter

  Vigor, Heat, Conjugal

  "The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter: With a Life of the Author, and a Critical Examination of His Writings".

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

  Peter Abelard

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Keys

  82 Copy quote

• The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Enemy, Chaos, Winner

  42 Copy quote

• The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Beautiful, Swag, Simplicity

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.50, Univ of California Press

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

  Samuel Beckett

  Somewhere Else, Laughing, Tears

  "Waiting for Godot". Play by Samuel Beckett, 1952.

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Good Man, Desire

  36 Copy quote

• Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivation, Two, Liberty

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.253

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.

  Hans Hofmann

  Nature, Creative, Mind

  "Hans Hofmann". Book by Cynthia Goodman, p. 103, 1986.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Being Strong, Nature, Character

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

  66 Copy quote

  Show source