Steadfast Quotes
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On a fair prospect some have looked, And felt, as I have heard them say, As if the moving time had been A thing as steadfast as the scene On which they gazed themselves away.
william wordsworth— Part I, stanza 16.
The stars with deep amaze, stand fixed in steadfast gaze.
john milton— 1629 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity','The Hymn', stanza 6.
I have just accepted the invitation of Her Majesty The Queen to form a Government. This will be a new Government with new priorities and I have been privileged to have been granted the great opportunity to serve my country and at all times I will be strong in purpose, steadfast in will, resolute in action in the service of what matters to the British people, meeting the concerns and aspirations of our whole country.
gordon brown— Statement at Downing Street, 27 June 2007
— Statement outside 10 Downing Street immediately after becoming Prime Minister.
You in my soul I see, faithful watcher by my cot-side long days and nights together through the delirium of mortal anguish, steadfast, calm, and sweet as eternal love. We pass now quickly from each other's sight; but I know full well that where beyond these passing scenes you shall be, there will be heaven!
joshua chamberlain— The Passing of the Armies : An account of the Army of the Potomac, based upon personal reminiscences of the Fifth Army Corps (1915), "The Last Review"
I have likewise made many 'skies' and effects — for I wish it could be said of me as Fuselli says of Rembrandt, 'he followed nature in her calmest abodes and could pluck a flower on every hedge — yet he was born to cast a steadfast eye on the bolder phenomena of nature'... We have had noble clouds & effects of light & dark & color.
john constable— Remark to Rev. John Fisher in 1821 on his oil-sketches of stormy weather, as quoted in Leslie Parris and Ian Fleming-Williams, Constable (Tate Gallery Publications, London 1993), p. 222
Hodgson, a man of steadfast integrity and strong personality, possessed true distinction.
Martin Seymour-Smith— About Ralph Hodgson, in Guide to Modern World Literature (1973, p. 237)
But since the Modernists (as they are commonly and rightly called) employ a very clever artifice, namely, to present their doctrines without order and systematic arrangement into one whole, scattered and disjointed one from another, so as to appear to be in doubt and uncertainty, while they are in reality firm and steadfast, it will be of advantage, Venerable Brethren, to bring their teachings together here into one group, and to point out the connexion between them, and thus to pass to an examination of the sources of the errors, and to prescribe remedies for averting the evil.
pope pius x— Papal encyclical letter "Pascendi dominici gregis" ("Feeding the Lord's Flock") promulgated by Pope Pius X on 8 September 1907.
I came from nowhere, and shall beStrong, steadfast, swift, eternally:I am a lion, a stone, a tree,And as the Polar star in meIs fixed my constant heart on thee.Ah, may I stay forever blindWith lions, tigers, leopards, and their kind.
vita sackville-west— "The Greater Cats"
I believe that a prosperous, democratic Pakistan will be a steadfast partner for America, a peaceful neighbor for India and a force for freedom and moderation in the Arab world.
george w. bush— Televised speech in India, March 3, 2006; According to one news report, "White House spokesman Scott McClellan later had to explain aboard Air Force One en route to Pakistan that Bush meant to say 'Muslim world' — uncomfortably noting that Pakistan is not an Arab nation.""Bush's Pakistan visit not 'risk-free'" Chicago Tribune, March 3, 2006
Life and death, union and separation, follow hard upon one another. Nothing is steadfast but the will, nothing endures but one's achievements. These alone count in life.
yoshida shoin— Vol. V (Yoshida Shoin Zenshu)
You drive the landscape like a herd of clouds Moving against your horizontal tower Of steadfast speed. All England lies beneath you like a woman With limbs ravished By one glance carrying all these eyes.
stephen spender— "The Midlands Express"
The youth of Hamas and all the mujahideen are familiar with Abbas and his methods, and therefore, they will be steadfast, Allah willing, and will carry out Jihad and martyrdom operations, which will blow up all his security agencies.
— Hamas MP Fathi Hammad Threatens to Use Suicide Bombings against Abu Mazen. MEMRI (August 10, 2007).
— . Hamas MP Fathi Hammad Threatens to Use Suicide Bombings against Abu Mazen
Put thou thy trust in God; In duty's path go on; Fix on His word thy steadfast eye; So shall thy work be done.
— Martin Luther, p. 203. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
After sketching his program for the scientific revolution that he foresaw, Bacon ends his account with a prayer: "Humbly we pray that this mind may be steadfast in us, and that through these our hands, and the hands of others to whom thou shalt give the same spirit, thou wilt vouchsafe to endow the human family with new mercies". That is still a good prayer for all of us as we begin the twenty-first century.
freeman dyson— Freeman Dyson, Progress In Religion (2000)
O ye who wish to gain realization of the Supreme Truth , utter the name of "Vishnu" at least once in the steadfast faith that it will lead you to such realization.
— Rig Veda, V.I.15b.3
Only be steadfast, never waver, Nor seek earth's favor, But rest; Thou knowest what God wills must be For all His creatures so for thee The best.
— Paul Fleming, p. 248. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
[Pakistan] will be a steadfast partner…. A force for freedom and moderation in the Arab world.
— George W. Bush, televised speech in India, March 3, 2006; According to one news report, "White House spokesman Scott McClellan later had to explain aboard Air Force One en route to Pakistan that Bush meant to say 'Muslim world' — uncomfortably noting that Pakistan is not an Arab nation." "Bush's Pakistan visit not 'risk-free'", Chicago Tribune, March 3, 2006 (dead link).[ ]
And be steadfast in prayer and regular in charity: And whatever good ye send forth for your souls before you, ye shall find it with Allah: for Allah sees Well all that ye do.
— as translated by Marmaduke Pickthall
Fill your mind with Me, be My devotee, sacrifice unto Me, bow down to Me; thus having made thy heart steadfast in Me, taking Me as the Supreme Goal, thou shalt come to Me.
— Bhagavad Gita, in Divinity: A Portrait of Human Spirituality, p.69
Do you think that you will enter the Garden while Allah has nor yet known those from among you who strive hard (nor) known the steadfast? And certainly you desired death before you met it. So indeed you have seen it now while you look (at it).
— 141-142 Maulana Muhammad Ali translation
O you who believe, when you meet an army, be firm, and remember Allah much, that you may be successful. And obey Allah and His Messenger and dispute not one with another, lest you get weak-hearted and your power depart; and be steadfast. Surely Allah is with the steadfast.
— 45-46 Maulana Muhammad Ali translation
O Prophet, urge the believers to fight. If there be of you twenty steadfast, they shall overcome two hundred; and if there be of you a hundred, they shall overcome a thousand of those who disbelieve, because they are a people who do not understand.
— 65 Maulana Muhammad Ali translation
There is no other course but the one we have chosen, except the course of humiliation and darkness, after which there will be no bright sign in the sky or brilliant light on earth? All this will make us more patient and steadfast, and better prepared for the battle which God blesses and which good men support. Then there will only be a glorious conclusion, where a brilliant sun will clear the dust of battle, and where the clouds of battles will be dispelled.
Saddam Hussein— 1991 Baghdad radio broadcast, 21 Feb.
And 'while the world runs round and round,' I said, 'Reign thou apart, a quiet king, Still as, while Saturn whirls, his steadfast shade Sleeps on his luminous ring.'
Tennyson— 1832 Poems,'The Palace of Art', stanza 4, l.13-16.
