Constancy Quotes
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I am as true as truth's simplicity, And simpler than the infancy of truth.
William Shakespeare -
At the end of every day of every year, two things remain unshakable, our constancy of purpose and our continuous discontent with the immediate present.
Roberto Goizueta
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Individualism? Narcissism? Of course. It is my strongest tendency, the only intentional constancy fidelity I am capable of.... Besides, I am lying; I scatter myself too much for that.
Claude Cahun -
I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.
Richard Nelson Bolles -
The Christian must stand fixed to his principles, and not change his habit; but freely show what countryman he is by his holy constancy in the truth.
William Gurnall -
Many are really virtuous who cannot explain what virtue is . . . But the powers themselves in reality perform their several operations with sufficient constancy and uniformity in persons of good health whatever their opinions be about them . . .
Francis Hutcheson -
The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy
Thomas Bulfinch -
Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.
Charles Dickens
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Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?
George Bernard Shaw -
A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me.
Confucius -
Constancy of purpose is the first principle of success.
Napoleon Hill -
What seems real one moment is fiction the next and gone out of existence the moment after that. Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth, and change our only constancy.
David Budbill -
Constancy in a man is rare.
Catherine Cookson