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Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues. -- Giuseppe Mazzini
Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship. -- Joseph Addison
The secret of success is constancy to purpose. -- Benjamin Disraeli
I've found constancy and balance between creativity and normality. -- Julian Lennon
Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good. -- Thomas Browne
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. -- George Bernard Shaw
The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that. -- Evelyn Underhill
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. -- Walt Disney
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. -- Honore de Balzac
I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child. -- Sarah Fielding
Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times. -- Federica Montseny
That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other. -- Isaac Barrow
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
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
Constancy in a man is rare. -- Catherine Cookson
Constancy is the chimera of love. -- Luc de Clapiers
Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Constancy of purpose is the first principle of success. -- Napoleon Hill
Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange. -- John Wilmot
Constancy in love ... is only inconstancy confined to one object. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability. -- Michel de Montaigne
A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me. -- Confucius
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. -- Samuel Johnson
Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal. -- Lord Byron
Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort. -- Charles Dickens
Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together; And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather. -- John Suckling
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. -- William Shakespeare
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy. -- Baron de Montesquieu
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. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of sleep, the cause of most wars and practically all persecutions. -- Freya Stark
If ever thou shalt love, In the sweet pangs of it remember me; For such as I am all true lovers are, Unstaid and skittish in all motions else Save in the constant image of the creature That is beloved. -- William Shakespeare
Constancy in love is of two sorts: One is the effect of new excellencies that are always presenting themselves afresh, and attractour affections continually; the other is only from a point of honor, and a taking of pride not to change. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all women in his wife, like those squalid poetasters of the seventeenth century who made fair Irises and dazzling Chloes of their lowly Manons. -- Honore de Balzac
Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; 'Tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love and Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them. -- Joseph Addison
Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four Cs. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable. -- Walt Disney
Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives. -- Dan Savage
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. -- Tom Rath
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and goodwill. We trust those who have our best interests at heart, and mistrust those who seem deaf to our concerns. -- Gary Hamel
The constancy of the blood sugar level is maintained by a complex physiological mechanism, a homeostatic mechanism of the same order as those which maintain the body temperature, the blood pressure or the heart rate at normal levels and control many other functions. -- Bernardo Houssay
I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started to understand the beauty of constancy and history and change and going on the roller coaster with someone - of having a partner in life. -- Maria Bello
In many ways, constancy is an illusion. -- Mary Catherine Bateson
The secret of success is constancy of purpose -- Benjamin Disraeli
The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy -- Thomas Bulfinch
No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The secret of inner success is constancy to our highest character. - -- Sri Chinmoy
Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world. -- Joseph Addison
The four Cs as secret of my success-curiosity, confidence,courage and constancy. -- Walt Disney
We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause. -- Thomas Southerne
The constancy of the benefit of the yeere in their seasons argues a Deity. -- George Herbert
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one's self. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
People who know the state of emptiness will always be able to dissolve their problems by constancy. -- Shunryu Suzuki
... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God! -- Charles Dickens
The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith. -- John Calvin
We should measure affection, not like youngsters by the ardor of its passion, but by its strength and constancy. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
beauty is like piety--you cannot run and read it; tranquility and constancy, with, now-a-days, an easy chair, are needed. -- Herman Melville
Love is fostered by confidence and constancy; he who is able to give much is able also to love much. -- Propertius
Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy. -- Michael Shermer
My life will always have dirty dishes. If this sink can become a place of contemplation, let me learn constancy here. -- Gunilla Brodde Norris
The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise in mortification. -- Saint Francis de Sales
Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. The way of nature is unchanging. Knowing constancy is insight. -- Laozi
Discipline provides a constancy which is independent of what kind of day you had yesterday and what kind of day you anticipate today. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Rain puts a hole in stone because of its constancy, not its force. Just keep knocking on doors until the right one opens -- Joseph Gerber
Prayer is the pulse of the renewed soul; and the constancy of its beat is the test and measure of the spiritual life. -- Octavius Winslow
When you accurately perceive the fluidity of things, you can also begin to perceive the constancy behind them: the creative, transformative, boundless, immutable Tao. -- Laozi
The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs. -- Felix Frankfurter
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 -- John Ruskin
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
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. -- Michel de Montaigne
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. -- Michel de Montaigne
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. -- Ted Simon
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. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The Christian must stand fixed to his principles, and not change his habit; but freely show what countryman he is by his holy constancy in the truth. -- William Gurnall
What seems real one moment is fiction the nextand gone out of existence the moment after that.Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth,and change our only constancy. -- David Budbill
The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Individualism? Narcissism? Of course. It is my strongest tendency, the only intentional constancy [fidelity] I am capable of.... Besides, I am lying; I scatter myself too much for that. -- Claude Cahun
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. -- Epictetus
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
God allows us to give rise to the practice of two beautiful virtues: perseverance, which leads us to attain the goal, and constancy, which helps us to overcome difficulties. -- Vincent de Paul
The slaves of custom and established mode, With pack-horse constancy we keep the road Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells, True to the jingling of our leader's bells. -- William Cowper
He who would valiant be against all disaster; let him in constancy follow the Master. There's no discouragement shall make him once relent; his first avowed intent to be a pilgrim. -- John Buchan
Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible. -- Winston Churchill
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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. -- John Steinbeck
There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The simpleness, the sweetness, and the constancy of the tender mercies of the Lord will do much to fortify and protect us in the troubled times in which we do now and will yet live. -- David A. Bednar
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. -- Lord Chesterfield
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. -- Vivian Gornick
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. -- Winston Churchill

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