Firm Quotes - Page 3

• .... the brisk exercise imparts elasticity to the muscles, fresh and healthy blood circulates through the brain, the mind works well, the eye is clear, the step is firm, and a day's exertion always makes the evening's repose thoroughly enjoyable.

  David Livingstone

  Eye, Exercise, Journey

  David Livingstone (2012). “The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868”, p.42, tredition

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• I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for I thought to myself, I have now seen this temple of the modern world imperfectly; I have seen it only by moonlight.

  Karl Philipp Moritz

  Journey, Next Day, Hiking

  Karl Philipp Moritz (1886). “Travels in England in 1782”

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• I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

  Winston Churchill

  Sea, Relief, Causes

  The Malakand Field Force ch. 3 (1898)

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• The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also. With a reliance on Providence, all the more firm and earnest, let us proceed in the great task which events have devolved upon us.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Struggle, Liberty, Events

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.297, Library of America

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• My parents were very firm about me always getting my homework done.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Parent, Done, Homework

  "Being A Teenager In The White House, From Chelsea Clinton", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 17, 2014.

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• The Republic is open and tolerant but also knows how and when to be firm and make its values respected.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  India, Republic, Know How

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• Whether a tops-down or bottoms-up investor in bonds, stocks, or private equity, the standard analysis tends to judge an investor or his firm on the basis of how the bullish or bearish aspects of the cycle were managed.

  Bill Gross

  Judging, Analysis, Aspect

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• The foundation upon which Rotary is built is friendship; on no less firm foundation could it have stood.

  Paul P. Harris

  Foundation, Rotary, Built

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• Prayer cleanses from sin, drives away temptations, stamps out persecutions, comforts the fainthearted, gives new strength to the courageous, brings travellers safely home, calms the waves, confounds robbers, feeds the poor, overrules the rich, lifts up the fallen, supports those who are falling, sustains those who stand firm.

  Tertullian

  Prayer, Fall, Home

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• I am often asked by would-be entrepreneurs seeking escape from life within huge corporate structures, ‘How do I build a small firm for myself?’ The answer seems obvious: Buy a very large one and just wait.

  Paul Ormerod

  Entrepreneur, Waiting, Would Be

  Paul Ormerod (2010). “Why Most Things Fail”, p.20, Faber & Faber

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• I looked at myself in the mirror. I looked awful, but I always look awful in the mirror. I keep myself going with the firm belief that my real face is much better looking.

  George Alec Effinger

  Real, Mirrors, Looks

  George Alec Effinger (2017). “The Budayeen Cycle: When Gravity Fails, A Fire in the Sun, and The Exile Kiss”, p.23, Open Road Media

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• A black...gets a job with a white-owned company. He is the only black at the firm. He works hard, but he's fighting a losing battle against his genes.

  David Duke

  Jobs, Hard Work, Fighting

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• The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him to accompany me and to become my fellow student, but in vain. His father was a narrow-minded trader, and saw idleness and ruin in the aspirations and ambition of his son. Henry deeply felt the misfortune of being debarred from a liberal education. He said little, but when he spoke I read in his kindling eye and in his animated glance a restrained but firm resolve not to be chained to the miserable details of commerce.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Father, Eye, Ambition

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2005). “Frankenstein”, p.36, Prestwick House Inc

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• All this marked them as vaguely liberal, although their ideas would never congeal into anything like a firm ideology; in this, too, they were American.

  Barack Obama

  Ideas, Ideology

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.17, Canongate Books

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• You need to be prepared for firm decisions and action, without losing gentleness towards those who obstruct or abuse you. It's as great a weakness to be angry with them as it is to abandon your plan of action and give up through fear.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Giving Up, Decision, Abuse

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• I'm not against working out. It's just not effective for weight loss. I like strength training to tone and firm the body so you look tight. But working out just makes you hungrier.

  Jorge Cruise

  Loss, Work Out, Training

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• Doing begets more doing. It sounds simple, but I’m a firm believer that action can solve so many worries, and just powering through, no matter what, can give you the confidence you need when you feel like you’ve got nothing to offer.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Simple, Giving, Worry

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• I'm a firm believer that all this packaged stuff that Americans are buying up in gobs is making them fatter.

  Michael Symon

  Gob, Stuff, Buying

  "Top Chefs Share Their Mothers’ Best Lessons" by Allison Adato, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2012.

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• I am a firm believer in marriage. In the future I will be married.

  Elisabetta Canalis

  Married, Believer, Being Married

  "George Clooney, Elisabetta Canalis Call it Quits" by Sophie Schillaci, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 22, 2011.

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• From the law firm's perspective, billing by the hour has a certain appeal: it shifts risk from the firm to the client in case the work takes longer than expected. But from a client's perspective, it doesn't work so well. It gives lawyers an incentive to overstaff and to overresearch cases.

  Robert Pozen

  Law, Giving, Perspective

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• You have various institutions like law firms and accounting firms which bill by the hour. I'm really against that. You have an incentive to go slowly, be there as long as possible, to over-research things and over-staff.

  Robert Pozen

  Law, Long, Research

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• Reports also suggest that Ernst and Young and other large tax preparation firms are sending tax returns overseas for processing. But the IRS has no control over tax information once it's been sent to India or another country.

  Melissa Bean

  Country, Preparation, India

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• I am a firm believer in free but fair trade. However the United States should not be on the losing end of trade agreements that are not enforced. It is time that we make China play fairly.

  Elizabeth Dole

  Agreement, Play, United States

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• The time has come for the American government to recognize the damage that has occurred to our economy, and to take firm action to curtail what I believe is both unfair and illegal foreign competition.

  Norm Dicks

  Believe, Government, Competition

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• I'm a firm believer and I think my religion is inside.

  Billy Eckstine

  Thinking, Believer

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