Persist Quotes

329 Persist quotes by 270 unique authors

If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break… — Dave Pelzer
The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists. — Eric Ries
Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if… — Donald Rumsfeld
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. — Carl Sagan
The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail,… — Adam Smith
All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's… — Stephen Sondheim
My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is… — Daniel Tammet
You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the… — E. O. Wilson
You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that… — Isaac Asimov
If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few… — Edward Abbey
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to… — Sue Monk Kidd
That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you resist, persists — Neale Donald Walsch
We are made to persist. that's how we find out who we are. — Tobias Wolff
We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of… — Atul Gawande
A man is called a traitor, or liberator. A rich man is a theif or philanthropist. Is one a crusader or ruthless invader? It's all… — Gregory Maguire
Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some few to be… — Mary Balogh
Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists. — Eckhart Tolle
The show's writers had peppered the piece with words like "savage," "wild," and "animalistic." What bullshit. Show me the animal that kills for the thrill… — Kelley Armstrong
Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social… — Malcolm Gladwell
But maybe the Charm Bracelets understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the world placed in… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her… — Thomas Hardy

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270 authors contributed a total of 329 Persist Quotes, led by these top contributors: