Steady Quotes

Slow but steady wins the race. (Aesop)
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady. View quote
Thomas Moore
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. View quote
Alexander Graham Bell
Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. View quote
David Hume
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. View quote
Joseph Addison
It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman. View quote
Tallulah Bankhead
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. View quote
Mary Shelley
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver. View quote
Sophocles
On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement. (Fredrik Bajer)
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. View quote
William Hazlitt
Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Csar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy. View quote
Joseph Addison
There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business. View quote
James Russell Lowell
There will... be natural propriety in using an eastern light for bedrooms and libraries, a western light in winter for baths and winter apartments, and a northern light for picture galleries and other places in which a steady light is needed; for that quarter of the sky grows neither light nor dark with the course of the sun, but remains steady and unshifting all day long. View quote
Vitruvius
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. View quote
Mark Twain
Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel. View quote
Tryon Edwards
Steady of heart and stout of hand. View quote
Walter Scott
For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort. View quote
Joseph Conrad
There is, in world affairs, a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim . (Eileen Caddy)
History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again. View quote
Alan Bean
If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per year, or even 20 percent, this would be a good bargain. View quote
William Vickrey
The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me. View quote
Howard Nemerov
Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not. View quote
Ieyasu Tokugawa