Firmness Quotes - Page 5

• Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Emotional, Soul, Intellectual

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.23, Rodale

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• The strengths landscape architecture draws from its garden design heritage include: the Vitruvian design tradition of balancing utility, firmness and beauty; use of the word 'landscape' to mean 'a good place' - as the objective of the design process; a comprehensive approach to open space planning involving city parks, greenways and nature outside towns; a planning theory about the contextualisation of development projects; the principle that development plans should be adapted to their landscape context.

  Tom Turner

  Mean, Garden, Cities

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• Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Real, Hard Words, Hard

  Alexander Hamilton (1851). “Correspondence [contin.] 1795-1804; 1777; 1791. Letters of H.G. 1789. Address to public creditors. 1790. Vindication of funding system. 1791”, p.253

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• True science and true religion are twin sisters, and the separation of either from the other is sure to prove the death of both. Science prospers exactly in proportion as it is religious; and religion flourishes in exact proportion to the scientific depth and firmness of its basis.

  Thomas Huxley

  Religious, Depth, Twins

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• The vigour of government is essential to the security of liberty. . . . a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people, than under the forbidding appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Ambition, Rights, Government

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, J.R. Pole (2005). “The Federalist”, p.3, Hackett Publishing

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• Stubborness we deprecate,
  Firmness we condone,
  The former is our neighbors trait,
  The latter is our own.

  John Wooden

  Neighbor, Stubbornness, Latter

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• March is the month of expectation,
  The things we do not know,
  The Persons of Prognostication
  Are coming now.
  We try to sham becoming firmness,
  But pompous joy
  Betrays us, as his first betrothal
  Betrays a boy.

  Emily Dickinson

  Spring, Boys, Expectations

  Emily Dickinson (1915). “The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime”

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• You know the words from the Bible: 'Build not on sand, but on rock....' Tyrant leaders respect only firmness...and laugh at persons who give in to them.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, Rocks, Tyrants

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• The most striking features of the correctly bred German Shepherds are firmness of nerves, attentiveness, unshockability, tractability, watchfulness, reliability and incorruptibility together with courage, fighting tenacity and hardness.

  Max von Stephanitz

  Dog, Courage, Fighting

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• The tumults in America I expected would have produced in Europe an unfavorable opinion of our political state. But it has not. On the contrary, the small effect of these tumults seems to have given more confidence in the firmness of our governments. The interposition of the people themselves on the side of government has had a great effect on the opinion here in Europe.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, Government, Europe

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.153, Cambridge University Press

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• Critics ought never to be consulted, but while errors may yet be rectified or insipidity suppressed. But when the book has once been dismissed into the world, and can be no more retouched, I know not whether a very different conduct should not be prescribed, and whether firmness and spirit may not sometimes be of use to overpower arrogance and repel brutality.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Writing, Errors

  Samuel Johnson (2003). “Selected Essays”, p.433, Penguin UK

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• It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery. These may, perhaps, succeed for once, and borrow for awhile, from hope, a gay and flourishing appearance. But time betrays their weakness, and they fall into ruin of themselves. For, as in structures of every kind, the lower parts should have the greatest firmness--so the grounds and principles of actions should be just and true.

  Demosthenes

  Fall, Gay, Should Have

  Demosthenes (1756). “All the orations of Demosthenes, pronounced to excite the Athenians against Philip King of Macedon: Translated into English; digested and connected, so as to form a regular history of the progress of the Macedonian power: with notes historical and critical. By Thomas Leland, ...”, p.26

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• It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil--to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them. Controlled with firmness, guided by discretion, and hallowed by the imagination, the passions are the vivifiers and quickeners of our being. Without passion there can be no energy of character. Indeed, the passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways, and dangerous only in one--through their excess.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Passion, Character, Fire

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.77

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• If, by chance, someone among those men of extraordinary talent is found who has firmness of soul and who refuses to yield to the genius of his age and to debase himself with childish works, woe unto him! He will die in poverty and oblivion.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Woe Unto, Yield

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• God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Mom, Mother, Brave

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• It's important that the disparities in the living conditions cannot be allowed in this digital period to be too marked. Each and every one must be given an opportunity to participate, which is why Germany's fate in many ways depends on the firmness of its alliance with NATO, with the European Union.

  Angela Merkel

  Fate, Opportunity, Important

  Source: time.com

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• remember that though humility, without firmness, may be cowardly, yet courage without humility is presumptuous.

  Marie Angelique Arnauld

  Humility, May, Remember

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• Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Law, Order, Generosity

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• Fortunes are made, if I the facts may state--
  Though poor myself, I know the fortunate:
  First, there's a knowledge of the way from whence
  Good fortune comes--and this is sterling sense:
  Then perseverance, never to decline
  The chase of riches till the prey is thine;
  And firmness never to be drawn away
  By any passion from that noble prey--
  By love, ambition, study, travel, fame,
  Or the vain hope that lives upon a name.

  George Crabbe

  Perseverance, Ambition, Passion

  George Crabbe (1839). “The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One Volume”, p.364

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• [The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.

  Madame de Stael

  Europe, Energy, Rudeness

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• Fasting (is) for the maintainance and firmness of your sincerity.

  Fatima bint Muhammad

  Fasting, Sincerity

  "Ayan al-Shī'ah". Book by Fatima bint Muhammad, vol.1, p. 316,

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• With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live as slaves.

  John Dickinson

  Perseverance, Heart, Reflection

  John Dickinson (1891). “The Life and Writings of John Dickinson”

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• Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wisdom, Philosophical, Two

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.449, Stanford University Press

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• It is by far the safer course to lay [considerations of the future] altogether aside; and to confine our attention wholly to the nature and extent of the powers as they are delineated in the constitution. Everything beyond this, must be left to the prudence and firmness of the people; who, as they will hold the scales in their own hands, it is to be hoped, will always take care to preserve the constitutional equilibrium between the General and State governments.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, Hands, People

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• The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Practice, Mind, Body

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2014). “BKS Iyengar Yoga The Path to Holistic Health”, p.137, Dorling Kindersley Ltd

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