(20 quotes found)
“I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.”
Richard Nelson Bolles
“The secret to success is constancy to purpose.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy”
Thomas Bulfinch
“The secret of success is constancy of purpose.”
“Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange”
John Wilmot (2nd Earl of Rochester)
“As soon / Seek roses in December - ice in June; / Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff; / Believe a woman or an epitaph, / Or any other thing that's false, before / You trust in critics.”
Lord Byron
“Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay”
Charles Caleb Colton
“Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.”
“Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues”
Giuseppe Mazzini
“Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
