Definition of Firmness

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Definition of Firmness
	Firmness The state or quality of being firm. Related Definitions: Being, Firm, Of, Or, Quality, State, The

Firmness Quotations

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
Abraham Lincoln

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
George Washington

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.
Alexander Hamilton

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
Robert Burns

People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.
Ivan Turgenev

The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the dignity and firmness of men worthy of freedom.
Robert Toombs

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.
Jilly Cooper

The standards of the international community manifest firmness. Iran has no need for long-range missiles or to collaborate with terrorist organizations all over the world.
Moshe Katsav

Firmness Translations

firmness in Latin is stabilitas, pertinacia
firmness in Norwegian is fasthet
firmness in Spanish is firmeza
firmness in Swedish is fasthet

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