Quotes with firmness

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  • Lord Chesterfield Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Bruce Lee As an instructor, you must be able to distinguish between poor performance caused by lack of ability or aptitude on the part of the student and poor performance caused by lack of effort. You should treat the first with patience and the latter with firmness. You must never apply sarcasm and ridicule.
    Jeet Kune Do (1997) Part 5 On training in Jeet Kune Do
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Robert Burns Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
    Robert Burns
    Scottish Poet (1759 - 1796)
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  • George Washington I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Henry Watton In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight.
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Bobby Flay Lime juice makes things taste fresher. I use it for drinks, salsas, relishes, soups, and sauces. You want some give to your limes - firmness means the inside is dry - and they'll stay softer longer if you don't refrigerate them.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Alexander Hamilton Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Bhagavad Gita Valor, glory, firmness, skill, generosity, steadiness in battle and ability to rule - these constitute the duty of a soldier. They flow from his own nature.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Napoleon When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Seneca Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Abraham Lincoln With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work ;we are in.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Thomas Fuller Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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