Firm Quotes - Page 40

• He is less likely to be mistaken who looks forward to a change in the affairs of the world than he who regards them as firm and stable.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Change, Looks, World

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• The mind is very powerful. Therefore, it requires firm guidance. A powerful jet plane needs a good pilot; the pilot of your mind should be the wisdom that understands its nature.

  Thubten Yeshe

  Powerful, Mind, Needs

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• Indeed we do not really live unless we have friends surrounding us like a firm wall against the winds of the world.

  Charles Hanson Towne

  Friendship, Wall, Wind

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• ...how little our side of the industry did to move its business to the more ethical firms and to make a fuss about conflicted or unethical behavior. Had a number of us moved our business, we might have slowed or even stopped the 30-year slide in conflicted, unethical behavior that we have experienced. I, for one, regret the modest nature of our moves. We all could have done more. We have tolerated a pretty nasty decline in standards. Shame on us.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Regret, Moving, Numbers

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• We shall not fail - if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wise, Mistake, Victory

  A House Divided, delivered 16 June 1858, Springfield, Illinois

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• The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such a diversity that there is no man more different from
  another than from himself at different times.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Diversity, Principles

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.409, Cosimo, Inc.

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• No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him, his secretaries, have written that he was deeply hurt by what was said about him and drawn about him, but on the other hand, Lincoln had the great strength of character never to display it, always able to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might be. These elements of greatness, of course, inspire us all today.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Strength, Hurt, Strong

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• Rock is a great master of life. It teaches us this simple philosophy: Stay firm!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Philosophy, Simple

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• Self-immolation as a way to protest against the injustices or as a way to fight for freedom cannot be accepted! All the fights must be done in the dimension of existence! Your body is your road to everywhere; if you destroy it, you lose all the roads! Stay firm and fight alive; no cause is more valuable than a man's life! Keep your body out of the fire! Don't ever praise the self-immolations; condemn them! Suicide is a defeat! Power is to fight, to fight peacefully, and not to die in agony!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Suicide, Freedom

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• There is one thing sure about life: Life will push us hardly many times! When you are pushed, don't be surprised; stay firm like a plane tree or be elastic like a bamboo!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Tree, Bamboo

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• The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not see it, any more than he sees the splendor of a lightning flash. It does not persuade our judgement, it ravishes and overwhelms it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Judgement, Lightning, Doe

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.171, Stanford University Press

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• I hit the ball really well... had a lot of good looks at birdie all day, it's firm but you could control your golf ball, for sure. Today I controlled my ball very well. The confidence is definitely there. I feel really good about where I'm at and going into tomorrow.

  Dustin Johnson

  Confidence, Golf, Looks

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• The dirty little secret of what used to be known as Wall Street securities firms-Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, and Bear Stearns-was that every one of them funded their business in this way to varying degress, and every one of them was always just twenty-four hours away from a funding crisis. The key to day-to-day survival was the skill with which Wall Street executives managed their firms' ongoing reputation in the marketplace.

  William D. Cohan

  Brother, Wall, Dirty

  "House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street". Book by William D. Cohan, March 10, 2009.

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• Responsibility is something higher than my family, my country, my firm, my success. Responsibility to the order of Being, where, and only where, they will be properly judged.

  Vaclav Havel

  Country, Responsibility, Order

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• What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tears, Forests, Opinion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.378

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• I was 18 and making 150 quid a week, which was a lot of money to me. Then there was a bad winter and I got paid off. Then my firm, JW Henderson of Bowling Green Street, Leith, went bust. If they hadn't folded, I'd probably still be scaffolding and loving it.

  Jamie Sives

  Winter, Green, Bowling

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• I'm a firm believer that there are no rules in art. Every trajectory is different.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Art, Different, Believer

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I'm a firm believer in research, but I'm also a firm believer in utilizing the instincts that are within your soul or in your body or in your stomach, wherever they reside.

  Clint Eastwood

  Soul, Research, Body

  "[NYFF] Clint Eastwood’s ‘Hereafter’ Press Conference". thefilmstage.com. October 17, 2010.

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• I believed in myself and I am a firm believer you have to think the things you want and visualize.

  John Legend

  Thinking, Want, Believer

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• Homosexuals love to look good. They're clean, neat. They're fastidious, well mannered and well educated. They like aesthetic things. They like good, firm, tight bodies. Health. They want to attract other guys. What's wrong with that? Why be slobs? You've got to be insane to suggest that because someone looks good, he must be gay. That's envy.

  Jack LaLanne

  Gay, Envy, Guy

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• I felt, as a lawyer, when I was mentoring and working with kids, that I gained a level of groundedness that I just couldn't get sitting on the forty-seventh floor of a fancy firm. Selfishly, it gives me joy - it makes me feel like my life has a purpose.

  Michelle Obama

  Kids, Giving, Joy

  "Michelle Obama: Your First Lady (Special Recognition)". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. November 2, 2009.

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• I was blessed throughout my entire career. I had people rooting for me. It started with my parents, but it extended to almost every teacher that I had. Even when I was a young lawyer, there were other women and men in the firm who took me under their wing.

  Michelle Obama

  Teacher, Blessed, Men

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• What people have to realize is that if one has a firm belief in God and the spirit then one does not make statements that are negative and untrue.

  Prince

  People, Negative, Doe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am a firm believer in reincarnation for people who either have more work to do or have so much debt to pay back that they have to be here.

  Prince

  People, Debt, Pay

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• After I began to make some money, my brain-damaged accountant put me in one business after another that went bad. The only one that panned out was a small bank, an old Scottish firm with London offices in Pall Mall. I was a director. We sold out to a larger bank. That was the only successful venture I've had, apart from acting.

  Sean Connery

  Successful, Office, Brain

  "Sean Connery Learns 'The Chicago Way'". Interview with Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. September 21, 1986.

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