Keep moving forward, don't listen to the naysayers, persevere, be persistent. — Rudy Ruettiger Copy Share Image
The most persistent threat to freedom, to the rights of Americans, is fear. — George Meany Copy Share Image
The most persistent principles in the universe are accident and error. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Deep, persistent problems are never solved by accident; they are solved only by people who are obsessed with them and set out… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“It is in building the best of our abilities that we ultimately destroy the worst of our liabilities.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America. — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
Hollywood's persistent hostility to religious values is not just peculiar, it is positively pathological. — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
When you have been persistent for as long as I have been, you have to exercise a certain amount of caution, but… — Nushrat Bharucha Copy Share Image
I suppose in order to succeed at something you have to be very persistent. I've never done that. — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Why do they make things so complicated?" "So that those who have the responsibility for understanding can understand.," he said. "Imagine if… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
We have had eight years of consistent and persistent attacks on those four years in government - and on me, personally, but… — Edward Heath Copy Share Image
With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Right now, the economy is a whole lot like a fairly good-looking brain-dead chick in a persistent vegetative coma. You can't really… — Cintra Wilson Copy Share Image
“Strange, that some of us, with quick alternative vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The persistent failures of controlled, double-blind experiments to support the claims of parapsychology suggest that what's going on is nonsense rather than… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It would be one thing if we could say the system works [in Illinois], and that individuals followed procedures and were found… — Jan Schakowsky Copy Share Image
A curiously interested observer sees a great deal, a scientifically interested observer is worthy of all honor, and anxiously interested observer sees… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, if we contemplate a society with a somewhat stable wage-unit, with national characteristics which determine the propensity to consume and the… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Be persistent. Establishing yourself in this field could easily take years. Rarely will any composer get that one "big break." More often,… — John Keltonic Copy Share Image
Ah, my brother, it is a far harder thing, and it is afar higher proof of a thorough-going, persistent, Christian principle woven… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Once more their weird laughter of the loons comes to my ear, the distance lends it a musical, melancholy sound. For a… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
For me, it is clear that we are currently in a period of structural crisis of capitalism going back to the 1970s,… — John Bellamy Foster Copy Share Image
Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
“Giving credence to persistent intuitions awakens the dormant heart consciousness.” — Steven Redhead Copy Share Image
If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image