Commend while others are criticizing, persist while others are quitting — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
magic persists without us no matter what we may do to try to spoil it — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Persist. Practice. Experiment. Imagine. Do your best work, and all else will follow.” — Sandi Metz Copy Share Image
“If you’re going to give up after few attempts, bear it in mind that your struggles are going to be wasted.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Love is not without its flaws. The stronger the love, the more it tests you. Compassion and empathy will make true love… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is… — Wallis Simpson Copy Share Image
The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion; so long as the illusion persists so long will… — Christmas Humphreys Copy Share Image
Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate -healthy virile hate- for what the German personifies and… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-" "It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule. — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest. People lie when you ask them… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
We are unlikely to cease making gods or inventing ceremonies to please them for as long as we are afraid of death,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Dogmatism grew from the soil of simplistic and frequently wrong concepts. Dogmatism is like a ship that has run aground: the waves… — Dmitri Volkogonov Copy Share Image
The evolution of government from its medieval, Mafia-like character to that embodying modern legal institutions and instruments is a major part of… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
If you want to write, do two things - read lots of books and also, in your own writing, practise. Just write… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
At the beginning of a novel, a writer needs confidence, but after that what's required is persistence. These traits sound similar. They… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Traces of nobility, gentleness and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do… — Walt Kelly Copy Share Image
Americans once believed that their prosperity and way of life depended on having assured access to Persian Gulf oil. Today, that is… — Andrew Bacevich Copy Share Image
Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me "weak" or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
For loving, working, and creative people to throw off the yoke of power it is necessary to abolish power itself, not merely… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
We add that it would be all too easy to object that mutations have no evolutionary effect because they are eliminated by… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
I persist in preferring philosophers to rabbis priests imams ayatollahs and mullahs. Rather than trust their theological hocus-pocus I prefer to draw… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science,… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
It sometimes seems that we live as if we wonder when life is going to begin. It isn't always clear just what… — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
It is evident that many wars are fought over resources which are now becoming increasingly scarce. If we conserved our resources better,… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Good can still exist when bad things happen, just as evil persists when good things happen.” - Carter to Georgina — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are facing a stiff wind right now, but if we persist and keep fighting back, we will prevail. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
remember this: no matter how politely or distinctly you ask a Parisian a question he will persist in answering you in French. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The world is not fair. If you persist in presuming it is, you will create a lot of unnecessary misery for yourself. — Fred Green Copy Share Image
Ever since the Great Depression, economists have known that demand shortages tend to persist in the wake of severe financial crises like… — Bob Frank Copy Share Image
If you persist in ignoring your intuition, you may find yourself stuck in a permanent holding pattern instead of taking the risks… — Nita Leland Copy Share Image
A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be free to do so, for his death… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Ever notice the word 'rough' in through? There is truth to that, though the way may be rough, we are still able… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
The day, man will find that he never really dies; that his Soul persists beyond death; he will have no more fear… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. — George Allen Copy Share Image
