Persist Quotes

329 Persist quotes by 270 unique authors

They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions… — Samuel Johnson
Though we may never be able to comprehend human life, we know certainly that it is a movement, of whatever nature it be. The existence… — Nikola Tesla
Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me "weak" or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study which I decided… — William Butler Yeats
Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by… — Isaac Newton
No culture in history has ever embraced moral relativism and survived. Our own culture, therefore, will either (1) be the first, and disprove history's clearest… — Peter Kreeft
As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest. — Nelson Mandela
The biggest mistake investors make is to believe that what happened in the recent past is likely to persist. They assume that something that was… — Ray Dalio
A sad truth of human nature is that it is hard to care for people when they are abstractions, hard to care when it is… — Paul Rusesabagina
Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them always as snowflakes in an… — Theodore Dalrymple
Love is not without its flaws. The stronger the love, the more it tests you. Compassion and empathy will make true love persist. — Khalil Gibran
Governments, political parties, pressure groups, and the bureaucrats of the educational hierarchy think they can avoid the inevitable consequences of unsuitable measures by boycotting and… — Ludwig von Mises
I will dance and resist and dance and persist and dance. This heartbeat is louder than death. — Suheir Hammad
If the practice persists of covering government deficits with the issue of notes, then the day will come without fail, sooner or later, when the… — Ludwig von Mises
As long as hierarchy persists, as long as domination organises humanity around a system of elites, the project of dominating nature will continue to exist… — Murray Bookchin
The Christian is not free to do what the Bible forbids. Christian freedom does not entail the right to fornicate or to steal or to… — Sam Storms
Persistence is probably the single most common quality of high achievers. They simply refuse to give up. They longer you hang in there, the greater… — Jack Canfield
Decide exactly what you want and resolve to persist, no matter what, until you achieve it. — Brian Tracy
How is it possible for one’s heart to be certain that one is going to meet Allah, that Allah sees and hears all that he… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Rule Number One is this: If you’re open to learning, you get your life-lessons delivered as gently as the tickle of a feather. But if… — Gay Hendricks
It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin. — St. Catherine of Siena
I persist in preferring philosophers to rabbis priests imams ayatollahs and mullahs. Rather than trust their theological hocus-pocus I prefer to draw on alternatives to… — Michel Onfray
The man who persists in knocking will succeed in entering. — Moses ibn Ezra
The world will persist in exhibiting before you what you persist in affirming the world is. — Emma Curtis Hopkins
The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we… — Thomas Merton
What you resist persist. — Carl Jung

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