Steadiness Quotes - Page 2

• He that is warm for truth, and fearless in its defense, performs one of the duties of a good man; he strenghtens his own conviction, and guards others from delusion; but steadiness of belief, and boldness of profession, are yet only part of the form of godliness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Fearless, Good Man

  Samuel Johnson (1812). “Sermons Attributed to Samuel Johnson: And Left for Publication by John Taylor”, p.209

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• How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and wicked for the same reason, and, in an ecstasy of unrequited love, taken to wrench off door-knockers, and invert the boxes of rheumatic watchmen!

  Charles Dickens

  Heartbreak, Taken, Unrequited Love

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Barnaby Rudge, And, Hard Times: With Ten Illustrations”, p.193

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• It is the curse of talent that, although it labors with greater steadiness and perseverance than genius, it does not reach its goal, while genius already on the summit of the ideal, gazes laughingly about.

  Robert Schumann

  Perseverance, Goal, Doe

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• I ought not to doubt the steadiness of your affection. Yet such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest, and thus it is, that i always feel revived, as by a new convinction, when your words tell me I am dear to you; and wanting these, I relapse into doubt and often into despondency.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Real, Doubt, Affection

  Ann Radcliffe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)”, p.716, Delphi Classics

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• I will make an average man into an average dancer, provided he be passably well made. I will teach him how to move his arms and legs, to turn his head. I will give him steadiness, brilliancy and speed; but I cannot endow him with that fire and intelligence, those graces and that expression of feeling which is the soul of true pantomime.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Dance, Moving, Men

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• I was late to understand that chaos and intensity are no subsitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life. Normal people are not always boring. On the contrary. Volatility and passion, although often more romantic and enticing, are not intrinsically preferable to a steadiness of experience and feeling about another person.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Real, Passion, People

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.104, Pan Macmillan

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• A young man before he leaves the shelter of his father's house, and the guard of a tutor, should be fortify'd with resolution, and made acquainted with men, to secure his virtues, lest he should be led into some ruinous course, or fatal precipice, before he is sufficiently acquainted with the dangers of conversation, and his steadiness enough not to yield to every temptation.

  John Locke

  Father, Men, Yield

  John Locke, George Berkeley (2010). “Locke, Berkely and Hume”, p.54, Cosimo, Inc.

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• My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determination, and an unyielding dignity.

  Jill Lepore

  Loyalty, Mother, Determination

  "The Prodigal Daughter" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. July 8, 2013.

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• We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.

  Ferdinand Mount

  Government, Consistency, Quality

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• I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress.

  Anne Bancroft

  Strong, Stress, Doubt

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• I think of the quietness of Julian's voice as he said I love you, the steadiness of his rib cage rising and falling against my back, as we sleep.I love you, Julian. But the words don't come.

  Lauren Oliver

  Love, Fall, Sleep

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.659, Hachette UK

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• In the work of art the truth of an entity has set itself to work. ‘To set’ means here: to bring to a stand. Some particular entity, a pair of peasant shoes, comes in the work to stand in the light of its being. The being of the being comes into the steadiness of its shining. The nature of art would then be this: the truth of being setting itself to work.

  Martin Heidegger

  Art, Mean, Shoes

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• I also believe that we have to protect our country and lead the world with strength and steadiness, and we have to unify our country and you know that's what I want the Democratic Party to stand for and that's what I hope my presidency will achieve.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Believe, Party

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Nobody's cooler than my two girls. They just seem to take whatever comes with, you know - happiness and - steadiness. And they're loving school. They're making friends... and - they've already joined some clubs. And Sasha, you know - I think maybe to endear - myself to her, she - she decided she wanted to join a basketball team. So - what more could I want?

  Barack Obama

  Basketball, Girl, Team

  "As if nothing had changed in our nation since last February, an Army general, a colour guard and military jets introduce the Superbowl" by Daniel Nasaw, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2009.

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• What we opprobriously call stupidity, though not an enlivening quality in common society, is nature's favorite resource for preserving steadiness of conduct and consistency of opinion.

  Walter Bagehot

  Stupidity, Consistency, Quality

  Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton (1891). “Literary studies ; Religious and metaphysical essays ; Letters on the French coup d'état”

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• Write on your doors the saying wise and old,
  "Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold;
  Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess
  Than the defect; better the more than less;
  Better like Hector in the field to die,
  Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wise, Writing, Doors

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, "Morituri Salutamus", (pp. 142-144), 1922.

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• The first step to get this noble and manly steadiness, is... carefully keep children from frights of all kinds, when they are young. ...Instances of such who in a weak timorous mind, have borne, all their whole lives through, the effects of a fright when they were young, are every where to be seen, and therefore as much as may be to be prevented.

  John Locke

  Children, Mind, Noble

  John Locke (1727). “The works of John Locke ...”, p.51

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• What more could one ask of a companion? To be forever new and yet forever steady, to be strange and familiar all at once, with enough change to quicken my mind, enough steadiness to give sanctuary to my heart. The books on my shelf never asked to come together and they would not trust or want to listen to one another. But each is a piece of a stained-glass whole, without which I wouldn’t make sense to myself or to the world outside.

  Pico Iyer

  Book, Heart, Glasses

  "Great Reads In Store: Indie Booksellers Pick 2012's Best". www.npr.org. December 13, 2012.

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• I have seen some who did not know when to turn aside their eyes in meeting yours. A truly confident and magnanimous spirit is wiser than to contend for the mastery in such encounters. Serpents alone conquer by the steadiness of their gaze. My friend looks me in the face and sees me, that is all.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Eye, Snakes

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.496, Simon and Schuster

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• I often accuse my finest acquaintances of an immense frivolity; for, while there are manners and compliments we do not meet, we donot teach one another the lessons of honesty and sincerity that the brutes do, or of steadiness and solidity that the rocks do. The fault is commonly mutual; however, for we do not habitually demand any more of each other.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Honesty, Character

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• Historically, I've done movies, but I've got a family already. I've been doing this for many years, and the idea of working consistently on something that I really, really love, and the steadiness of it, was really appealing.

  Sam Huntington

  Years, Ideas, Done

  Source: collider.com

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