Constancy To Purpose Quotes & Sayings

A noble and active mind blunts itself against nothing so quickly as the sharp and bitter irritant of knowledge. And certain it is that the youth's constancy of purpose, no matter how painfully conscientious, was shallow beside the mature resolution of the master of his craft, who made a right-about-face, turned his back on the realm of knowledge, and passed it by with averted face, lest it lame his will or power of action, paralyse his feelings or his passions, deprive any of these of their conviction or utility. — Thomas Mann

Was it too much to ask you to wait for me? To believe in me? Don't you know how much I love you? — Colleen Houck

Asher means 'happy and blessed' which embodies my eldest. Caleb means 'stubborn and tenacious dog' and I can't even tell you how much that is my little boy! It was a useful warning. — David Oyelowo

Freedom. It's not something you go out and die for. — Jack Bowman

He used to be a German, but he completely recovered. — Boris Akunin

The secret to success is constancy of purpose. — Benjamin Disraeli

Super. Sally Security was back. — A&E Kirk

Don't think, just feel it. I know you do; I can see it on your face. — Megan Smith

Constancy of purpose is the first principle of success. — Napoleon Hill

It's important to me that everyone is treated with respect. — Clive Owen

Like space, the soul is not an expression of eternal constancy but of constant change, and this motion has but one purpose: to continue forward, on the narrow ledge, in the absurd hope that you can escape the Darkness. — Erik Valeur

The secret of success is constancy of purpose. - BENJAMIN DISRAELI — William Bill Damon

The most delightful aspect about the language of cinema is that it speaks to each of us in different ways - it is a purely subjective experience. — Tina Ambani

It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes; at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes. — Wanda Sykes

And in the minds of progressives you are free to live anyway you want so long as it's progressive. — Jonah Goldberg

Zen was an attempt to get back to the purest teachings of the Buddha -enlightenment without strings. — Frederick Lenz

Either the material order is the whole of being, wherein all transcendence is an illusion, or it is the phenomenal surface - mysterious, beautiful, terrible, harsh, and haunting - of a world of living spirits ... One should ... be able to recognize that it is only the latter view that has ever had the power - over centuries and in every realm of human accomplishment - to summon desire beyond the boring limits marked by mortality, to endow the will with constancy and purpose, and to shape imagination towards ends that should not be possible within the narrow economies of the flesh. — David Bentley Hart

The stains could be seen only in the sunlight, so Ruth was never really aware of them until later, when she would stop at an outdoor cafe for a cup of coffee, and look down at her skirt and see the dark traces of spilled vodka or whiskey. The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: 'booze affects material as it does people'. — Alice Sebold

At the end of every day of every year, two things remain unshakable, our constancy of purpose and our continuous discontent with the immediate present. — Roberto Goizueta

Last year, on a long car trip, I was listening to Rush Limbaugh shout. I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him. I listen to NPR: "World to end-poor and minorities hardest hit." I like to argue with the radio. — P. J. O'Rourke

Steam in an open space would just simply scatter in different directions. Steam contained in an engine can move a whole train. Success comes from One-pointedness and Constancy of Aim and Effort. — Choa Kok Sui

I think theater is a core need of a community. — Sam Underwood

The secret of success is constancy to purpose. — Benjamin Disraeli