Persistent Quotes · Page 7

The persistent man with a poor plan stands a better chance of winning than the man with a perfect plan who hesitates…

— Napoleon Hill

anyone who writes plays is unbelievably persistent, because there isn't a need in the world for plays. Somehow you internally have to…

— Wendy Wasserstein

Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God.

— Andrew Murray

Persistent distrust is the flame of deceit. Be as good as your word or be singed by the heat.

— Wes Fesler

Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Advantage comes not from the spectacular or the technical. Advantage comes from a persistent seeking of the mundane edge.

— Tom Peters

All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

The persistent appetite for human beings for community is what we should all be dedicated to.

— Bob Maguire

I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have…

— Sanford I. Weill

We must remember that we do not observe nature as it actually exists, but nature exposed to our methods of perception. The…

— Albert Einstein

Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the…

— Frank Herbert

I want to be a multi-time champion. I want to be a multiple division champion. I still have a lot of goals;…

— Urijah Faber

Having a persistent nature is part of being human. Otherwise we wouldn't be able to speak of knowing another person, or loving…

— Neal Stephenson

There is a persistent funny form of suspicion in most of us that we can solve our own problems and be the…

— Harry Stack Sullivan

Once you assume your right to interfere in other people's problems they become in some ways more of a worry than your…

— Marion Milner

Some people have an unrealistic expectation when it comes to getting published; the fact is most publishers will turn down your work…

— Judith Guest

When I was a young lawyer, there were other women and men in the firm who took me under their wing. Sometimes…

— Michelle Obama

Only people willing to work to the point of discomfort on a regular basis using effective means to produce that discomfort will…

— Mark Rippetoe

You obviously don't know what an Old Man of the Sea great wealth is. It is not a fat purse and time…

— Robert A. Heinlein

To those who would submit to the rightful law and authority, all gentleness and forbearance; but to the petulant and persistent secessionists,…

— William Tecumseh Sherman

True belief is not about blind submission. It is about open-eyed acceptance, and acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth, and that…

— Andrew Sullivan

This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. Our most persistent and spectacular efforts are concerned not with the preservation of…

— Eric Hoffer

The single largest frustration in the massage field is the waste of resources and training resulting from high attrition among those who…

— Bob Benson

The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain - he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged…

— William Arthur Ward

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

— Arthur Koestler

Nobody ever mastered any skill except through intensive persistent and intelligent practice.

— Norman Vincent Peale

“You got to insist on your success, resist every obstacle and persist in times of difficulty and you will get there.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Rejection is one step to get you closer to the destination if you simply stay persistent!”

— Sarah Tse

We only live once, since we are given the gift of life it should be our persistent endeavor to immortalize ourselves no…

— Michael Jackson

Commit yourself to constant improvement. Commit yourself to quality. Be persistent, persistent, persistent...and have a grateful heart!

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

— Ralph Fiennes

He who is persistent will realize God. So try your best to make meditation a regular experience in your life.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

The most persistent of all attractive illusions in our country may be that racism can be ended by one single blow.

— McGeorge Bundy

Courage, then, for the end draws near! A few more years of persistent, faithful work and the women of the United States…

— Mary Livermore

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

— Albert Einstein

One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans' reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad…

— Frank Rich

Persistent in life? I think, yes, I am. I'm going to do something until I get it right.

— Giannis Antetokounmpo

Through persistent dedication, Susan B. Anthony, and other remarkable leaders, women were finally granted the right to vote in 1920.

— Louise Slaughter

“When you complain, you explain pain for no gain. Endure and balance yourself through the pain, be hopeful and persist to the…

— Israelmore Ayivor

The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sentiment, and that's what made…

— Elaine Pagels