Quotations on Firmness

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The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.
- Robert Blair
(Keywords: Men, Nature, Firmness, Grave)

The standards of the international community manifest firmness. Iran has no need for long-range missiles or to collaborate with terrorist organizations all over the world.
- Moshe Katsav
(Keywords: Community, Firmness, World)

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
- Abraham Lincoln
(Keywords: Work, God, Charity, Firmness, Malice, Nation, Right, Wounds)

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 Seneca
(Keywords: Life, Wisdom, Actions, Appetite, Firmness, Mind, Talk, Words)

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 Toombs
(Keywords: Men, Compromise, Conflict, Dignity, Firmness, Freedom)

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 Turgenev
(Keywords: Love, People, Character, Fate, Firmness, Necessity, Responsibility, Will)

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
(Keywords: Character, Hope, Virtue, Firmness, Man, Titles)