Persist Quotes

329 Persist quotes by 270 unique authors

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
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
Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions. — Isaiah Berlin
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. — Mortimer Adler
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise. — William Blake
If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives? — Taylor Caldwell
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
There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around. — Vinton Cerf
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible. — Lord Chesterfield
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
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
Never consider the possibility of failure; as long as you persist, you will be successful. — Brian Tracy
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.
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
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
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
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
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
Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of law is absent. In such… — Colin Powell
The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary… — Sigmund Freud
How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we… — William James
Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and… — Jonah Lehrer

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