#stead

If you want Allah to be persistent in granting you the thing you love, then be persistent in doing the things he loves. ↗

— Imam Ahmad

#religion #steadfastness #love

But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back? ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#failure #faultlessness #faults #human-nature #steadfastness

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more I will respect myself. I will keep the law given by God; sanctioned by man. I will hold the principles received by me when I was sane, not mad -- as I am now. Laws and principles are not for times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour; stringent are they; inviolate they shall be. If at my individual convenience I might break them, what would be their worth? They have a worth -- so I have always believed; and if I cannot believe it now, it is because I am insane -- quite insane, with my veins running fire, and my heart beating faster than I can count its throbs. Preconceived opinions, foregone determinations are all I have at this hour to stand; there I plant my foot. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#morality #principles #steadfastness #respect

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement. ↗

— Peter Agre

#abraham lincoln #act #bill #half #homestead

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full. ↗

— Arthur Ashe

#best #boat #dark #doing #full

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world. ↗

— Jane Austen

#being #called #charming #diffidence #girl

Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas. ↗

— Joe Baca

#creating #cuts #gave #instead #jobs

To help U.S. workers, farmers and businesses, and America's long-term economic security, Congress should take decisive action to bring about fair trade with China, instead of squandering this opportunity on a weak Republican bill. ↗

— Joe Baca

#action #america #bill #bring #businesses

As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#better #bill #bill gates #billionaires #carnegie

I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you can't take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches. ↗

— Arthur Ashe

#ball #breath #care #certain #choke