#Stability Quotes

“Let still woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart, For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner to be lost and warn, Than women's are.”

“The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.”

“Blest are those Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please.”

“Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.”

“America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.”

“Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. . . . We must strive for normalcy to reach stability.”

“All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.”

“I have rather a strange objection to talking from the back platform of a train.... It changes too often. It moves around and shifts its ground too often. I like a platform that stays put.”

“People don't change under governments. Governments change. People remain the same.”

“True ideas lead us into useful verbal and conceptual quarters as well as directly up to useful sensible termini. They lead to consistency, stability and flowing human intercourse.”

“The best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something quite similar today to what they were doing five or ten years ago.”

“Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.”

“I am rooted, but I flow.”

“Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted by those brought up to tread therein.”

“Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.”

“Habit is the great flywheel of society.”

“The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature. We are not built like a ship to be tossed, but like a house to stand.”

“Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change.”

“I have been happy . . . in believing that . . . whatever follies we may be led into as to foreign nations, we shall never give up our Union, the last anchor of our hope, and that alone which is to prevent this heavenly country from becoming an arena of gladiators.”

“The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that there shall always be a twelve-month between the ingross-ing a bill & passing it: that it should then be offered to its passage without changing a word: and that if circum-stances should be thought to require a speedier passage, it should take two thirds of both houses instead of a bare majority.”

“Change is always in regard to something which does not change, or which changes relatively less.”

“There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby.”

“Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency.”

“I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered; and the easier repaired when disordered.”

“Both history and contemporary data show that countries prosper more when there are stable and dependable rules, under which people can make investments without having to fear unpredictable new government interventions before these investments can pay off.”

“A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill”

“Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.”

“We will remain steady. We will pursue every avenue in the search for peace and stability.”

“The functionaries of public power rarely strengthen in their dispositions to abridge it, and an unorganized call for timely amendment is not likely to prevail against an organized opposition to it. We are always told that things are going on well; Why change them? 'Chi sta bene, no si mueve,' said the Italian, 'let him who stands well, stand still.' This is true; and I verily believe they would go on well with us under an absolute monarch, while our present character remains, of order, industry and love of peace, and restrained as he would be, by the proper spirit of the people.”

“The tumults in America I expected would have produced in Europe an unfavorable opinion of our political state. But it has not. On the contrary, the small effect of these tumults seems to have given more confidence in the firmness of our governments. The interposition of the people themselves on the side of government has had a great effect on the opinion here in Europe.”

“I've always wanted an office job so I can tell someone, "I'm going to take a long lunch," or "I'm out of the office." I don't know why, but I've always seen so much stability in clocking in.”

“What this means is that people are seeing a stable business, which is good, and a business that is in control, which is also good.”

“The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.”

“The idea of having a steady job is appealing.”

“Love has earth to which she clings.”

“So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may choose something like a star To stay our minds on and be staid.”

“I suppose [my life] has most resembled a blue chip stock: fairly stable, more ups than downs, and gradually trending upward over time. A good buy, a lucky buy, and I've learned that not everyone can say that about his life.”

“Being in the Tuileries is not everything: what matters is to stay here.”

“For the stability of the Government, the people should have a considerable voice in the elections.”

“Routine is a ground to stand on, a wall to retreat to; we cannot draw on our boots without bracing ourselves against it.”

“States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them”

“The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms.”

“It has always been the opinion and judgment of wise men that nothing can be so uncertain as fame or power not founded on its own strength.”

“No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.”

“A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.”

“A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.”

“I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.”

“Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.”

“People can have a long-term life plan only if they know their private property is secure.”

“In lightness the root is lost. In haste the ruler is lost.”