Firm Footing Quotes

A house built on sand is, in fair weather, just as good as if builded on a rock. A cobweb is as good as the mightiest chain cable when there is no strain on it. It is trial that proves one thing weak and another strong.

It's impossible to lose your footing when you're on your knees.

The one-legged never stumble.

My feet are firmly planted on the ground.

A house built on granite and strong foundations, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, gushing torrents and strong winds will be able to pull down.

If you're able to build something on a strong foundation, you're not going to be easily swayed.

Hee stands not surely, that never slips.

Ponder the path of your feet, and let all your ways be firm.

And I needed a rock. Something to hold onto, to stand on. Something solid. Because everything was going soft, turning into mush, into marsh, into fog. Fog closing in on all sides. I didn't know where I was at all.

He who stands on tiptoe does not stand firm.

He who walks straight rarely falls.

On the feet, on the ground, I have all the bases covered.

For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once.

I stay on terra firma: the more firm, the less terror.

Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand. Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!

The heart of standing is you cannot fly.

I have got two reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.

I don't want to fall. All I want to do is stand on solid ground.