firmness of purpose Quotes

We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.

Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there is no longer any 'if' or 'but'.

To shirk taking of vows betrays indecision and want of resolution.

Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.

You've got to stop going back and forth. You've got to make up your mind.

But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.

Stubbornness is a virtue if you are right.

Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.

Armed with purity of intentions and firmness of purpose, I may reasonably entertain the hope of being able to clear the administrative agency of all corruption and incompetency, and impart to it the maximum of honesty and efficiency. I now warn my officials of all ranks that I have fully made up my mind to put down corruption and intrigue wherever they may be found.

TENACITY, n. A certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains its highest development in the hand of authority and is considered a serviceable equipment for a career in politics.

Well, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who's too easily biddable.

Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.

No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.

With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.

Stubborness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power.