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A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles. – B. B. Warfield
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him. – Sidney Greenberg
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts. – Abraham Lincoln
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. – Thomas Paine
Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. – Socrates
"I would hope that as a community we are learning to ask more questions about meteoric financial rises, yet I'm uncertain if anything has really changed (after Rothstein)," said Kendall Coffey, a former U.S. attorney who represented Rothstein's law firm after the Ponzi scheme was uncovered. – Kendall Coffey
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. – David McClure Brinkley
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him. – David Brink
According to conviction, I am not simply what I am doing now. I am also what I have done, and my conventionally edited version of my past is made to seem almost more the real me than what I am at this moment. For what I am seems so fleeting and intangible, but what I was is fixed and final. It is the firm basis for predictions of what I will be in the future, and so it comes about that I am more closely identified with what no longer exists than with what actually is – Alan B. Watts
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. – Derek Bethune
Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. – Oscar Wilde
Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction. – Julian Weber Gordon
Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them. – John Locke
First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
I am a firm believer of reading the horoscopes. I read all twelve, pick the one that sounds the best and go with that one. – David A. Cronin
I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool. – Katharine Whitehorn
In an ignorant country, everything will try to drag you down! Stay firm, aim at the stars, keep going up and drag up the people who are trying to drag you down! – Mehmet Murat ildan
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. – John Adams
Indeed, we do not really live unless we have friends surrounding us like a firm wall against the winds of the world. – Charles Hanson Towne
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought. – John Kenneth Galbraith
It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced. – William Shakespeare
No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him, his secretaries, have written that he was deeply hurt by what was said about him and drawn about him, but on the other hand, Lincoln had the great strength of character never to display it, always able to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might be. These elements of greatness, of course, inspire us all today. – Richard Nixon
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 there, firm as weeds among rocks. – Charlotte Bronte
Rock is a great master of life. It teaches us this simple philosophy: Stay firm! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Roots creep under the ground to make a firm foundation. Shoots seems new and small, but to reach the light they can break through brick walls. – Jane Goodall

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