Top 155 Constancy Quotes & Sayings

The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.

It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.

Constancy is the complement of all the other human virtues.

Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.

We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy.

Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which fixes our hearts successively to all the qualities of the person loved--sometimes admiring one and sometimes another above all the rest--so that this constancy roves as far as it can, and is no better than inconstancy, confined within the compass of one person.

The four Cs as secret of my success-curiosity, confidence,courage and constancy.

Constancy of purpose is the first principle of success.

Rain puts a hole in stone because of its constancy, not its force. Just keep knocking on doors until the right one opens

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.

Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.

The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise in mortification.

The secret of making dreams come true can be summarized in four C's.They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy; and the greatest of these is Confidence.

People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.

I've found constancy and balance between creativity and normality.

At a very basic level, people need to know that there is constancy in their jobs and, more broadly, in where the organization is headed.

Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.

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.

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

People who know the state of emptiness will always be able to dissolve their problems by constancy.

If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good.

Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy

Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it; so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage is to their eyes.

Prayer is the pulse of the renewed soul; and the constancy of its beat is the test and measure of the spiritual life.

And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.

No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.

In misfortune we often mistake dejection for constancy; we bear it without daring to look on it; like cowards, who suffer themselves to be murdered without resistance.

The constancy of the benefit of the yeere in their seasons argues a Deity.

The secret of inner success is constancy to our highest character. -

beauty is like piety--you cannot run and read it; tranquility and constancy, with, now-a-days, an easy chair, are needed.

Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives.

The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.

Six, or at most seven, hours' sleep is, for a constancy, as much as you or anybody else can want; more is only laziness and dozing, and is, I am persuaded, both unwholesome and stupefying.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, & intellect & feeling are only important in so far as they contribute to that.

A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.

... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!

It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian.

It was chilling to realize that the sentimental qualities most valued between people, like loyalty, constancy, and affection, are the ones most likely to impede change.

When you accurately perceive the fluidity of things, you can also begin to perceive the constancy behind them: the creative, transformative, boundless, immutable Tao.

Constancy in a man is rare.

Constancy is the chimera of love.

In many ways, constancy is an illusion.

Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange.

O constancy, be strong upon my side, Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue! I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.

The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California.

Constancy in love ... is only inconstancy confined to one object.

When is constancy required, except under persecution. Are not friends then proved? If they always yield, how can they ever succeed? They must, one time or other, make a stand.

My life will always have dirty dishes. If this sink can become a place of contemplation, let me learn constancy here.

The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.

For many there is a degree of constancy in our culture; London won't let you down.

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty

Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause.

Gardening is inevitably a process of constant, remorseless change. It is the constancy of that process that is so comforting, not any fixed moment.

The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one's self.

The older I grow, the more I realize how unfit we are for relationships. We are all such antagonists. It's part of the human condition to be deeply unfaithful to constancy. I do believe that.