Unwavering Quotes

• Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Alive, Sacred

  "Breakfast of Champions". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1973.

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• Knowing exactly what you want to do, with unwavering conviction, is the spark that generates everything.

  Deepak Chopra

  Knowing, Want, Sparks

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• Everyone starts strong. Success comes to those with unwavering commitment to be at the end.

  Howard Schultz

  Strong, Commitment, Ends

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• The primary ingredient for progress is optimism. The unwavering belief that something can be better drives the human race forward.

  Simon Sinek

  Race, Optimism, Progress

  FaceBook post by Simon Sinek from Dec 27, 2010

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• Never an illness, nor the absence of grandeur, no, nothing is able to kill the best in us, that kindness, dear sir, we are afflicted with: beautiful is the flower of man, his conduct, and every door opens on the beautiful truth and never hides treacherous whispers. I always gained something from making myself better, better than I am, better than I was, that most subtle citation: to recover some lost petal of the sadness I inherited: to search once more for the light that sings inside of me, the unwavering light.

  Pablo Neruda

  Beautiful, Kindness, Flower

  Pablo Neruda (2002). “The Sea and the Bells”, p.61, Copper Canyon Press

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• I am a very religious person, so it is the presence of God, the constant unwavering, unrelenting presence of God which continues to help me to keep a character which I am proud to show.

  Maya Angelou

  Religious, Character, Proud

  "America's Renaissance Woman". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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• When you're in a groove, you're not spinning your wheels; you're moving forward in a straight and narrow path without pauses or hitches.  You're unwavering, undeviating, and unparalleled in your purpose.  A groove is the best place in the world.  Because when you are in it, you have the freedom to explore, where everything you question leads you to new avenues and new routes.

  Twyla Tharp

  Moving, World, Spinning

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• A healthy relationship is built on unwavering trust.

  Beau Mirchoff

  Healthy, Healthy Relationship, Built

  "17 Questions with Beau Mirchoff". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. May 27, 2012.

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• There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.

  Ann Voskamp

  Today, Tomorrow, Unchanging

  Twitter post from Feb 27, 2017

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• Along with a strong belief in your own inner voice, you also need laser-like focus combined with unwavering determination.

  Larry Flynt

  Strong, Determination, Voice

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• We will continue to count on your unwavering support and commitment to working with leaders of our continent in bringing about the desired renaissance of Africa.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Commitment, Support, Leader

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• Education is of no value and talent is worthless - unless you have an unwavering aim. Never find yourself without a compass.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Basketball, Finding Yourself, Talent

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• Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.

  Alfred Jarry

  Real, Men, Discipline

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• True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or any other identity attribute.

  Desmond Tutu

  Commitment, Rights, Ethnicity

  "Divesting From Injustice" by Desmond Tutu, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2010.

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• Confusion and mistakes come when we forget the importance of God's word as our unwavering guide.

  Hugh W. Pinnock

  Mistake, Confusion, Forget

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• So many humans. So many colours. They keep triggering inside me. They harass my memory. I see them tall in their heaps, all mounted on top of each other. There is air like plastic, a horizon like setting glue. There are skies manufactured by people, punctured and leaking, and there are soft, coal-coloured clouds, beating, like black hearts. And then. There is death. Making his way through all of it. On the surface: unflappable, unwavering. Below: unnerved, untied, and undone.

  Markus Zusak

  Memories, Heart, Clouds

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• Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Peace, War, Mean

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• The people who come out on top in music business have persistence. It is key! Fall down seven times; stand up eight. It takes a lot of courage and an unwavering belief in yourself and your abilities.

  Wendy Starland

  Fall, Persistence, Keys

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• Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty.

  John Grogan

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Dog

  John Grogan (2010). “Bad Dogs Have More Fun: Selected Writings on Family, Animals, and Life from the Philadelphia Inquirer”, p.83, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The secret of true happiness lies within unwavering devotion to God

  Shri Radhe Maa

  Lying, Secret, Devotion To God

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• Because animals seem to dwell in the present moment,
  because their own presence is so instinctive,
  their attention so unwavering, the offer us
  a different kind of compassion than humans do.
  Anyone is lucky to have both human and
  animal comfort in their lives.

  Brenda Peterson

  Compassion, Animal, Comfort

  Brenda Peterson (2002). “Build Me an Ark: A Life with Animals”, p.159, W. W. Norton & Company

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• What unnerves so many liberals about talk radio? Simple: It's the unapologetic nature of the conversation, the unwavering sense of certainty. Where's the nuance? The shades of gray? We all know truth is a fragile butterfly dancing in and out of shadow and light, and these guys act as though truth is a rhino charging across a sunlit veldt.

  James Lileks

  Butterfly, Simple, Rhinos

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• To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a little luck.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Luck, Energy

  Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

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• A party in the orange grove. The pain on Linden's face is immediate. I am unwavering. He has cost me more pain than I will ever be able to repay.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Pain, Party, Orange

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• If you would have clear and irrefragable for a perpetual joy, a glory and a defense, the unwavering confidence, "I am Thy child," go to God's throne, and lie down at the foot of it, and let the first thought be, "My Father in heaven;" and that will brighten, that will establish, that will make omnipotent in your life, the witness of the Spirit that you are the child of God.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Children, Lying, Father

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 17), 1895.

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