Stand Firm

Famous quotes containing the words stand firm, stand and/or firm:

“I hope to “stand firm” enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“You may rely on it that you have the best of me in my books, and that I am not worth seeing personally, the stuttering, blundering clod-hopper that I am. Even poetry, you know, is in one sense an infinite brag and exaggeration. Not that I do not stand on all that I have written,—but what am I to the truth I feebly utter?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“It is meet
That noble minds keep ever with their likes;
For who so firm that cannot be seduced?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)