Firmness quotes

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◆ Be all in or get out. There is no halfway.

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◆ Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing

- Alexander Hamilton99

◆ When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

- Napoleon Bonaparte99

◆ People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.

- Ivan Turgenev99

◆ The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the dignity and firmness of men worthy of freedom.

- Robert Toombs99

◆ Well building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.

- Henry Wotton99

◆ 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.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca99

◆ 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 Washington99

◆ The purpose firm is equal to the deed.

- Edward Young99

◆ The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow99

◆ Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

- Alexander Hamilton99

◆ The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.

- Jilly Cooper99

◆ 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 Burns99

◆ Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

- Charles Hole99

◆ 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.

- Richard Bach99