Wavering quotes
25 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown."
"You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man."
"We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects."
"O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit!"
"All the strength and force of man come from his faith in things unseen."
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"My center is giving way, my right is pushed back, my left is wavering. The situation is excellent. I shall attack!"
"Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are."
"With wavering steps does fickle fortune stray, Nowhere she finds a firm and fixed abode; But now all smiles, and now again all frowns, She's constant only in inconstancy."
"Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace."
"How often do we contradict the right rules of reason in the whole course of our lives! Reason itself is true and just, but the reason of every particular man is weak and wavering, perpetually swayed and turned by his interests, his passions, and his vices."
"At a wavering instant the swallows gave way to bats By the Ponte Vecchio . . . Changing guard."
"At times, I have been criticized by some philosophers of education, who place me in postures that they classify pejoratively as 'revolutionary.' But I have had the satisfaction of being invited to work in societies making progressive efforts without wavering. They were changing, and so they called on me."
"The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions."
"Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief at all."
"Our worst foes are not belligerent circumstances, but wavering spirits."
"There is a goal but no way; what we call the way is mere wavering."
