Persist Quotes
329 quotes by 276 authors
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This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.
— Isaiah Berlin
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Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
— Mortimer Adler
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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
— William Blake
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If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?
— Taylor Caldwell
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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts…
— Albert Camus
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There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.
— Vinton Cerf
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Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Traces of nobility, gentleness, and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which…
— Walt Kelly
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All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is…
— Robert Collier
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Never consider the possibility of failure; as long as you persist, you will be successful.
— Brian Tracy
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A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep, and her dreams…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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What is the world full of? It is full of things that arise, persist, and cease. Grasp and cling to them, and they produce suffering.…
— Buddhadasa
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I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world into defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not…
— Og Mandino
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In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only…
— Kofi Annan
Who Wrote These Persist Quotes
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