Firmness Quotes

Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.

Be like the rocky headland on which the waves constantly break. It stands firm, and round it the seething waters are laid to rest.

I'm someone who has always been very stubborn and strong-willed. I never gave up.

Donald Trump is as decisive as anybody I've ever met. I just don't see him running around asking various people in his inner circle, "What do you think I ought to do here?" I think he knows what he wants to do, and he seeks support for it or talks to people that oppose him and he may listen to them. But I don't think he's indecisive at all.

When your lordships look at the papers transmitted to us from America-- when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause … For myself I must declare and avow, that in all my reading and observation … that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion … no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the Congress at Philadelphia. I trust that it is obvious to your lordships, that all attempts to impose servitude upon such men, to establish despotism over such a mighty continental nation, must be vain, must be fatal.

Only the gentle are ever really strong.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

I guess I'm fairly insistent and maybe consistent. If I decide I'll do something, I generally will.

The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.

If we cannot do this one way we will do it another. Do it, we will.

Nobody walks over me, ever, and no-one will walk over me, ever.

I have always been a very determined and stubborn person about what I want.

Be as nice as possible and as nasty as necessary.

I've lived a very colorful life, and I've said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I've never apologized for them - and I won't.

Pigheaded covers a multitude of virtues - as well as sins.

To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.

I'm a stubborn individual.

In the amenities of life our hoydenish young people are pitifully lacking. Nothing but discipline can give poise, firmness, self-confidence, steadiness, control; nothing can be more beneficial to the youth than to be taught promptness, self-mastery, erect carriage, alertness, cleanliness, obedience, respect, loyalty. Our practice of turning out our young people, raw, uncouth, penniless — into a competitive world to scramble fiercely for a living — cannot give them the real discipline in morals and manners which they need. Nothing can atone for this early lack.

Don't mistake politeness for lack of strength.

I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the common cause.

A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.

I was always tenacious.

I am tough. Sometimes I'm unreasonable. I have to catch myself every once in a while.

Oh! Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not. Do not return to your families with the stigma of disgrace marked on your brows. Return as heroes who have fought and conquered, and who know not what it is to turn their backs on the foe.