“When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision.”
Charlotte Bronte