Firm Quotes

The superior man undergoes three changes. Looked at from a distance, he appears stern; when approached, he is mild; when he is heard to speak, his language is firm and decided.

I don't really have guilty pleasures. Anything musically that I fully, fully believe, is good no matter who the artist is, no matter what the marketing is behind it, I stand pretty firm.

The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.

I am a firm believer that every few years one needs to shake one's life through a sieve, like a miner in the Yukon. The gold nuggets remain. The rest falls through like the soft earth it is.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Though we may not be able to see His purpose or His plan, the Lord of heaven is on His throne and in firm control of the universe and our lives.

Ham's substantial, ham is fat. Ham is firm and sound. Ham's what God was getting at When He made pigs so round.

Take a firm grasp on God’s sovereignty and trust His love even when you don’t understand His purpose.

Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.

Ribbons a-flutter and orchids a-tremble, Yearly the vigilant Daughters assemble, Affirming in fervid and firm resolutions Their permanent veto on all revolutions.

Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.

Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.

Be mild and firm. Apply your best exertions to put us in a proper posture of defense.

The one thing the media abhors almost without exception is anyone who takes a firm stand on any issue out of religious principle, unless their stand happens to coincide with their expressed views.

I was always taught that a woman's place was in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant. And I'm a firm believer in that.

Saddam was tranquillised when captured ... He would be a lion even when caged. Every honest person who knows Saddam knows that he is firm and powerful.

I'm a firm believer in shades of gray.

Nonviolence against humans cannot take firm hold in society as long as brutality and violence are practiced toward other animals.

There is a firm, clear commitment to provide resources and ideas to enable us to organize the Afghans towards starting the process of rehabilitation and reconstruction.

No one can truly be prepared for such devastation and pure malevolence, but the United Kingdom can always look to the United States as an ally resolved to stand firm in the war on terrorism.

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

You have to run the football and stop the run, no matter what level you play at, whether it's high school, college or professional ranks. I'm a firm believer in that.

Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world.

For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good.

I am a firm believer in free but fair trade. However the United States should not be on the losing end of trade agreements that are not enforced. It is time that we make China play fairly.

The contagious people of Washington have stood firm against diversity during this long period of increment weather.

My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.

Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew.

Matt Le Tissier had firm views about Austria's reluctance to allow Turkey full membership of the EU last Saturday, I seem to recall.

A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

A ready smile concealed a firm mind.

I'm a firm believer in research, but I'm also a firm believer in utilizing the instincts that are within your soul or in your body or in your stomach, wherever they reside.

He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.

When there is firm conquest over covetousness, they who have conquered it wake up to the how and why of life.

The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.

It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.

It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]

The world is a demon. It is a kingdom of which the puny ego is king. Put it away and stand firm.

You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

A lot of people tend to chew up the scenery. I'm a firm believer in less is more, especially on the big screen.

If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no matter what it is takes on dignity and importance.

What I would say to a person who is firm in their faith and wants to go into an acting career: It is such a difficult thing to do without compromising your beliefs.

Joe Wright was almost like a teacher, to be firm with me, that really stuck with me. And that helped me as I've gotten older.

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.

In spite of some bad experiences, I'm a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning.

Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?