Steady
Firm in standing or position; not tottering or shaking; fixed; firm.
Constant in feeling, purpose, or pursuit; not fickle, changeable, or wavering; not easily moved or persuaded to alter a purpose; resolute; as, a man steady in his principles, in his purpose, or in the pursuit of an object.
Regular; constant; undeviating; uniform; as, the steady course of the sun; a steady breeze of wind.
To make steady; to hold or keep from shaking, reeling, or falling; to make or keep firm; to support; to make constant, regular, or resolute.
To become steady; to regain a steady position or state; to move steadily.
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Steady Quotations
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
Winston Churchill
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Thomas Jefferson
Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.
Jim Rohn
It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.
Tallulah Bankhead
The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.
Lee Iacocca
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
Alexander Graham Bell
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
George Will
Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.
David Hume
I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
Orlando Bloom
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Steady Translations
steady in Italian is continuo, proporzionato
steady in Latin is constans
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