Steadiness Quotes

• Steadiness is coming up short 19 times and succeeding the twentieth.

  Julie Andrews

  Succeed

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• The practice of yogasana for the sake of health, to keep fit, or to maintain flexibility is the external practice of yoga. While this is a legitimate place to begin, it is not the end. Even in simple asanas, one is experiencing the three levels of quest: the external quest, which brings firmness of the body; the internal quest, which brings steadiness of intelligence; and the innermost quest, which brings benevolence of spirit.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Simple, Practice

  "Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom".

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• Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or popular delusions of the day, assured that the public approbation will in the end be with us.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ends, Intrigue, Delusion

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin. Reports and opinions while Secretary of State”, p.238

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• People say that steadiness of mind is an end; no, it is a beginning. I am there; I can explain everything up to that point. Then I struggle to discover what comes after, so this steadiness is not an end, it is the beginning and the instrument.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Struggle, People, Mind

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.41, Shambhala Publications

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• Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Faces, Helping

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• Be trustworthy. Steadiness and integrity lead to energetic opening in the other as the blocks in relating dissolve away with deepening trust over time.

  John Friend

  Block, Integrity, Trustworthy

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• Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Ancestry, Signals, Breeding

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.139, Reprint Services Corporation

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• I just think the reassurance and the steadiness and the hands-on kindness can make a huge difference.

  Dar Williams

  Kindness, Thinking, Hands

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• Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Life, Wisdom, Patriotic

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• I vow... "to not let the back & forth of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love.

  Deb Caletti

  Vow

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• Too much vigor in the beginning of an undertaking often intercepts and prevents the steadiness and perseverance always necessary in the conduct of a complicated scheme.

  Samuel Johnson

  Perseverance, Vigor, Too Much

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1811). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.242

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• There is a quiet repose and steadiness about the happiness of age, if the life has been well spent. Its feebleness is not painful. The nervous system has lost its acuteness. But, in mature years we feel that a burn, a scald, a cut, is more tolerable than it was in the sensitive period of youth.

  William Hazlitt

  Cutting, Years, Age

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• Tranquillity consisteth in a steadiness of the mind; and how can that vessel that is beaten upon by contrary waves and winds, and tottereth to either part, be said to keep a steady course? Resolution is the only mother of security.

  Joseph Hall

  Mother, Wind, Mind

  Joseph Hall, Philip Wynter (1863). “Works”, p.37

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• We should strive for steadiness, and for a commitment to God that does not ebb and flow with the years or the crises of our lives.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Commitment, Years, Ebb And Flow

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• Steadiness of faith, was, in the long run, as illuminating and essential as sophistication of thought.

  Jon Meacham

  Running, Long, Essentials

  Jon Meacham (2008). “American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House”, p.24, Random House

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• The riches they receive will be in exact proportion to the definiteness of their vision, the fixity of their purpose, the steadiness of their faith, and the depth of their gratitude.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Faith, Gratitude, Money

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work”, p.73, e-artnow

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• Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Perfect, Body, Asana

  "Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom".

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• Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but let them feel at the same time the steadiness of your just resentment for there is a great difference between bearing malice, which is always ungenerous, and a resolute self-defense which is ever prudent and justifiable.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Time, Enemy, Resentment

  "The Modern Chesterfield".

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• From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose; and to look to nothing else, not even for a moment, except to reason.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Atheism, Looks, Purpose

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.7, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world is dull and full of routine, but that the soul is sick and screaming. The problem of the fairy tale is: what will a healthy man do with a fantastic world? The problems of the modern novel is: what will a madman do with a dull world? In the fairy tales the cosmos goes mad; but the hero does not go mad. In the modern novels the hero is mad before the book begins, and suffers from the harsh steadiness and cruel sanity of the cosmos.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hero, Book, Mean

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• Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Girl, Literature

  Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.29, Wild Jot Press

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• Love includes vulnerability, surrender, self-valuing, steadiness, and a willingness to face - rather than run from - the worst of ourselves.

  Geneen Roth

  Running, Self, Faces

  Geneen Roth (1992). “When Food Is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy”, p.23, Penguin

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• If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Perseverance, Yoga, Maturity

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• To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises.

  Jack Kornfield

  Prayer, Commitment, Practice

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.11, Shambhala Publications

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• Failure means that you would not, or could not, pay for success. Success is a matter of sale. It can (most often) be bought by a large outlay--of hard forethought--of pains--of steadiness--of the golden wisdom coined from experience. But the figure is too high for most of us. We are too poor, or too slothful, to bring the price.

  Charles Buxton

  Pain, Failure, Mean

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