Steady Quotes

Keep moving. Don't stop. But don't rush.
Don't race around.
Sure and steady gets you there every time.
- Neale Donald Walsch

Related topics: Motivational Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology Patience Persistence Perseverance

Slow but steady wins the race.
- Anonymous

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill

The things that have acquired unity are these:
Heaven by unity has become clear;
Earth by unity has become steady;
The Spirit by unity has become spiritual;
The Valley by unity has become full;
All things by unity have come into existence.
- Lao Tzu

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet
and steady and loyal and enduring a nature
that it will last through a whole lifetime,
if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show
by what road it will pass to destruction,
to wit: by consolidation of power first,
and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
- Thomas Jefferson

No face which we can give to a matter
will stead us so well at last as the truth.
This alone wears well.
- Henry David Thoreau

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces
that incessantly draw great events.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu

If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling

If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin

Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin

All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden

We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss

Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson

You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen

To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France

The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu

Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus

The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock

To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli

One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin

If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy

Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving

Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung

Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans

A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer

To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca

Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau

Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes

About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw

To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling

Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu

I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu

Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb

All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell

After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela

The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot

Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill

Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill

Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher

The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie