Constancy
The state or quality of being constant or steadfast; freedom from change; stability; fixedness; immutability; as, the constancy of God in his nature and attributes.
Fixedness or firmness of mind; persevering resolution; especially, firmness of mind under sufferings, steadiness in attachments, or perseverance in enterprise; stability; fidelity.
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Constancy Quotations
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
George Bernard Shaw
Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.
Honore De Balzac
That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other.
Isaac Barrow
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli
The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.
Evelyn Underhill
Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
Joseph Addison
I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.
Richard Nelson Bolles
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
Charles de Secondat
Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times.
Frederica Montseny
Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
Thomas Browne
Constancy Translations
constancy in French is constance
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