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I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an "Honest Man. (Quote by - George Washington)

That which is called firmness in a king is called obstinacy in a donkey. (Quote by - Lord Erskine)

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. (Quote by - Moshe Katsav)

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

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. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)

The purpose firm is equal to the deed. (Quote by - Edward Young)

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve. (Quote by - Robert Burns)

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. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things. (Quote by - Jilly Cooper)

Well building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight. (Quote by - Henry Wotton)

The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm. (Quote by - Confucius)

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. (Quote by - Ivan Turgenev)

Since coming to Harwell I have met English people of all kinds, and I have come to see in many of them a deep rooted firmness which enables them to lead a decent way of life. (Quote by - Klaus Fuchs)

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. (Quote by - George Washington)

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. (Quote by - Robert Toombs)

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing. (Quote by - Alexander Hamilton)

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

It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity. (Quote by - Franois De La Rochefoucauld)

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)

Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility it becomes rashness or obstinacy. (Quote by - J. Swarlz)

This kind of prelude was succeeded by the concerto itself which he executed with a degree of spirit and firmness that no one has ever pretended to equal. (Quote by - John Hawkins)

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