“Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful”
Samuel Johnson
“The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.”
Jilly Cooper
“Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue”
Confucius
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in”
Abraham Lincoln
“We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe.”
Dan Quayle
“Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.”
Clint Eastwood
“It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who is so firm that cannot be seduced”
William Shakespeare