CONSTANCY

Related Subjects: Change, Consistency, Fickleness, Fidelity, Loyalty

1. Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.—ADDISON
   

2. A good man it is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me.—CONFUCIUS, Analects
   

3. The secret of success is constancy of purpose.—DISRAELI
   

4. Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.—MAZZINI
   

5. In their behavior three things are more steadfast than others: suspicion, the wind, and loyalty: the first never leaves a place it has entered; the second never enters when it cannot see a way of escape; the third never returns to a place it has left.—PETRARCH
   

6. A fellow of plain and uncoined constancy.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry V
   

7. But I am constant as the northern star,
   Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality
   There is no fellow in the firmament.—SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar

8. Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
   Men were deceivers ever;
   One foot in sea and one on shore;
   To one thing constant never.—SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About Nothing