Firm Quotes - Page 26

• I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.

  Grace Abbott

  Girl, Baby, Responsibility

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• As a tree, even though it has been cut down, is firm so long as its root is safe, and grows again, thus, unless the feeders of thirst are destroyed, the pain (of life) will return again and again.

  Max Muller

  Pain, Cutting, Roots

  Max Muller (2013). “Sacred Books of the East: Including Selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran, and the Life of Buddha”, p.164, Lulu Press, Inc

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• For some days I quietly worked out in my own mind the metaphysics of Cosmic Unity. The more I thought about it, the more convinced I became that it was the living truth. It was logically incontrovertible. It provided for the first time a firm foundation for ethics. It offered mankind the radical change of heart and mind that was our only hope of peace at a time of desperate danger. Only one small problem remained. I must find a way to convert the world to my way of thinking.

  Freeman Dyson

  Heart, Thinking, Small Problems

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• Once again it was Gough who stood firm for Scotland in the air

  Jock Brown

  Soccer, Football, Air

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• If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Practice, Self

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• God hears and He sees, and you are not alone in your struggles. Remain firm and stable, for God has your deliverance planned.

  Joyce Meyer

  Encouraging, God, Christian

  Twitter post from Jul 18, 2015

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• When you devote yourself to achieving your goal, you will not be bothered by shallow criticism. Nothing important can be accomplished if you allow yourself to be swayed by some trifling matter, always looking over your shoulder and wondering what others are saying or thinking. The key to achievement is to move forward along your chosen path with firm determination.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Determination, Moving, Thinking

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• The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a mountain, supple like a tree in the wind, he has no destination in view and makes use of anything life happens to bring his way.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Men, Views

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• We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Philosophy, Holding On, Difficulty

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• Man is under all conditons immersed in a sea of God's blessings. Therefore, be thou not hopeless under any circumstances, but rather be firm in thy hope

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Blessing, Men, Sea

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• Bahá'í marriage is union and cordial affection between the two parties. They must, however, exercise the utmost care and become acquainted with each other's character. This eternal bond should be made secure by a firm covenant, and the intention should be to foster harmony, fellowship and unity and to attain everlasting life.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Party, Character, Exercise

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• I'm So Sick is about how the world can sometimes be a sick and messed up place and how that influences us and tells us how we should live or who we should be. People do things just 'cause everyone else does and then they wonder why they feel empty all the time. Someone who has a firm stance in what they know to be true will empower empty followers to discover who they are as individuals with purposes and this creates leaders with voices of their own.

  Lacey Mosley

  Voice, People, Sick

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• But, though persecuting malice raged, yet the Gospel shone with resplendent brightness; and, firm as an impregnable rock, withstood the attacks of its boisterous enemies with success.

  John Foxe

  Rocks, Enemy, Boisterous

  John Foxe, John Malham, T. Pratt (1856). “Fox's Book of Martyrs, Or, The Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church: Being a Complete History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Deaths of the Christian Martyrs ... to which is Added an Account of the Inquisition ... with the Lives of Some of the Early Eminent Reformers”, p.480

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• When a storm blows, you must stand firm. For it is not trying to knock you down, it is really trying to teach you to be strong.

  Joseph M. Marshall III

  Strong, Blow, Storm

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• Life can give you strength. Strength can come from facing the storms of life, from knowing loss, feeling sadness and heartache, from falling into the depths of grief. You must stand up in the storm. You must face the wind and the cold and the darkness. When the storm blows hard you must stand firm, for it is not trying to knock you down, it is really trying to teach you to be strong.

  Joseph M. Marshall III

  Strong, Grief, Fall

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• May your love be firm, and may your dream of life together be a river between two shores - by day bathed in sunlight, and by night illuminated from within. May the heron carry news of you to the heavens, and the salmon bring the sea's blue grace. May your twin thoughts spiral upward like leafy vines, like fiddle strings in the wind, and be as noble as the Douglas fir. May you never find yourselves back to back without love pulling you around into each other's arms.

  James Bertolino

  Dream, Night, Love Is

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• Take a firm grasp on God’s sovereignty and trust His love even when you don’t understand His purpose.

  Joyce Meyer

  Purpose, His Love, Sovereignty

  Twitter post from Apr 16, 2013

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• Be like the rocky headland on which the waves constantly break. It stands firm, and round it the seething waters are laid to rest.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Water, Wave, Break

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• To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for the world at exactly the same time - is one of the great triumphs of human existence.

  David Whyte

  Triumph, World, Persuasion

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• Nonviolence against humans cannot take firm hold in society as long as brutality and violence are practiced toward other animals.

  Robert Thurman

  Animal, Long, Brutality

  FaceBook post by Robert Thurman from Mar 30, 2017

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• Stand firm in that which you are.

  Kabir

  Stand Firm, Imaginary Things

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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• The people of North America, at this time, expect a revisal and reformation of the American Governments, and are better disposed to submit to it than ever they were, or perhaps ever will be again.97. This is therefore the proper and critical time to reform the American governments upon a general, constitutional, firm, and durable plan; and if it is not done now, it will probably every day grow more difficult, till at last it becomes impracticable.

  Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet

  Government, America, People

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• Let us keep a firm grip upon our money, for without it the whole assembly of virtues are but as blades of grass.

  Bhartrhari

  Money, Virtue, Blades

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• Christianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and now, creatures of body and soul. We do not "follow the footsteps of his most holy life" by the exercise of a trained religious imagination, but by treading the firm, rough earth, up hill and down dale.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Christian, Religious, Prayer

  Evelyn Underhill (1956). “The School of Charity: Meditations on the Christian Creed. The Mystery of Sacrifice, a Meditation on the Liturgy”

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• Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO's pay. The upshot is that a mediocre-or-worse CEO - aided by his handpicked VP of human relations and a consultant from the ever-accommodating firm of Ratchet, Ratchet and Bingo - all too often receives gobs of money from an ill-designed compensation arrangement.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Bingo, Gob

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