Firm Foundation Quotes

No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.

My feet are firmly planted on the ground.

What is firmly rooted cannot be pulled out

If my feet ever left the ground, my mother would soon put them back down.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Hee stands not surely, that never slips.

Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.

Once the world was pulled out from beneath your feet, did you ever get to stand on firm ground again?

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

The aged oak upon the steep stands more firm and secure if assailed by angry winds; for if the winter bares its head, the more strongly it strikes its roots into the ground, acquiring strength as it loses beauty.

Archimedes, that he might transport the entire globe ... demanded only a point that was firm and immovable; so also, I shall be entitled to entertain the highest expectations, if I am fortunate enough to discover only one thing that is certain and indubitable.

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

The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.

A genuine transformation that results from sustained concerted effort is long lasting because it has a firm foundation.

What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.

A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.

The very concept of solid ground is a myth. The galaxy itself is adrift.

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.

As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade.

Sound moral principle is the only sure evidence of strength, the only firm foundation of greatness and perpetuity. Where this is lacking, no man's character is strong; no nation's life can be lasting.

The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther.

I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra.

The heart of standing is you cannot fly.

Safest therefore to me, it seems, and of less hazard and interruptions to affairs, that none of the grand council [of the State] be moved, unless by just conviction of some crime; for what can be expected firm or steadfast from a floating foundation?

Nothing before, nothing behind; The steps of faith Fall on the seeming void, and find The Rock beneath.