Abiding Quotes & Sayings
These abiding quotes, sayings and quotations are from our famous quotes collection. Inspirational quotes, sayings and quotations.Half the countries of the world claim to be democratic, but being democratic is not enough, for a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries must also have a deep love of liberty and an abiding respect for the rule of law. - Margaret Thatcher
As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end. - Adlai Ewing Stevenson
My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success. - Barack Obama
For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever-present sense of humour; it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence. - Edward Albee
Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists. - Eudora Welty
The characteristic of a genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God. - Sir Rabindranath Tagore