Persistent Quotes · Page 9

One thing of the many things that I know about Jesse Jackson, he is persistent.

— Jackie Jackson

“the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”

— Albert Einstein

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

— Billy Graham

A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

You get some success. You run into some walls...it's how tenacious you are, how irrepressible, how ultimately optimistic and tenacious you are…

— Steve Ballmer

“I don’t necessarily sit around inviting life to knock me down, but when it does I don’t wait around for an invitation…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Many people who became successful were once first time global failures. But because they didn't give up on their dreams, failure could…

— Israelmore Ayivor

The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how…

— Paul Ryan

It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" --…

— John Wyndham

When you have been persistent for as long as I have been, you have to exercise a certain amount of caution, but…

— Nushrat Bharucha

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

Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Be persistent. Establishing yourself in this field could easily take years. Rarely will any composer get that one "big break." More often,…

— John Keltonic

Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent. Like the contents of Pandora's box, a story that's…

— Jodi Picoult

Time and again our best and brightest have alerted society to looming problems, but our persistent pattern has been to ignore the…

— Eugene Linden

If people believe they can be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and they have no control over outside circumstances,…

— Rhonda Byrne

Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the…

— Walter Lippmann

I have learned that in any significant or continuing relationship, feelings which are persistent had best be expressed. If they are expressed…

— Carl Rogers

It would be one thing if we could say the system works [in Illinois], and that individuals followed procedures and were found…

— Jan Schakowsky

I readan article by a highly educated man wherein he told with what conscientious pains he had brought up all his children…

— Brenda Ueland

What keeps my flame burning is, first, I'm ornery and persistent. I don't like giving up on things and I believe in…

— Eddie Pepitone

Heavy blizzards start as a gentle and persistent snow.

— Mark Helprin

“Not perfect, but persistent.”

— JP Rattie

For most people, lack of consistent, persistent effort is the biggest obstacle.

— Edgar Cayce

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.

— John Burns

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

I am insulted by the persistent asertion that I want war. Am I a fool? War! It would settle nothing.

— Adolf Hitler

Keep moving forward, don't listen to the naysayers, persevere, be persistent.

— Rudy Ruettiger

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

— Edward Eggleston

Be persistent. Understand the ways in which your hard work is going to be necessary to achieve the goals that you want.

— Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

Be persistent with your disturbance until you get face to face with the Lord himself. Don't deify common sense.

— Oswald Chambers

Viewers don't like rudeness, but they like us to be persistent.

— Gavin Esler

It's only those who are persistent and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the master work.

— Paulo Coelho

I think the mind has a way of getting to where it needs to get to. If you are persistent.

— Bennett Miller

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

— Swami Vivekananda

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

“You have to be firm, persistent, passionate, and driven by the idea and have a strong desire to bring your product to…

— Sunday Adelaja

“Discover a purpose that gives you passion. Develop a plan that makes you persistent. Design a preparation and motivates you to optimize…

— Israelmore Ayivor