1.
Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.
Alexander Hamilton
 
3.
Friend, our closeness is this: anywhere you put your foot, feel me in the firmness under you.
Rumi
 
6.
Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.
Samuel Johnson
 
10.
There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance.
Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and surmount all difficulties.
Napoleon Bonaparte
 
12.
A vow imparts stability, ballast and firmness to one's character.
Mahatma Gandhi
 
13.
Stubborness we deprecate,
Firmness we condone,
The former is our neighbors trait,
The latter is our own.
John Wooden
 
14.
Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.
Tryon Edwards
 
15.
As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it is enunciated.
A. N. Wilson
 
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There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.
William Hazlitt