Persistent Quotes

271 quotes by 236 authors

It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and… — Wallace Stegner
Life's most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Actually, I would love to make a music video. Maybe it would finally put to rest those persistent rumours that have followed me throughout my… — Perry Como
We on our part will stick to our independent foreign policy of peace, acting forever as a strong defender of world peace and a persistent… — Hu Jintao
And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants… — Rainer Maria Rilke
To succeed, one must be creative and persistent. — John H. Johnson
If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more… — Ralph Marston
Whatever vocation you decide on, track down the best people in the world at doing it and surround yourself with them. Aim high and be… — Scott Weiss
As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we must move on… — John F. Kennedy
O my Bergson, you are a magician, and your book is a marvel, a real wonder in the history of philosophy . . . In… — William James
Parents must bring light and truth into their homes by one family prayer, one scripture study session, one family home evening, one book read aloud,… — L. Tom Perry
It is necessary to understand that Black Power is a cry of disappointment. The Black Power slogan did not spring full grown from the head… — Martin Luther
Close both eyes see with the other one. Then we are no longer saddled by the burden of our persistent judgments our ceaseless withholding our… — Greg Boyle
At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging. — Adam Schiff
On the mainland, a rain was falling. The famous Seattle rain. The thin, gray rain that toadstools love. The persistent rain that knows every hidden… — Tom Robbins
Nevertheless, if we contemplate a society with a somewhat stable wage-unit, with national characteristics which determine the propensity to consume and the preference for liquidity,… — John Maynard Keynes
It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their accuracy,… — John Dewey
You must be very patient, very persistent. The world isn't going to shower gold coins on you just because you have a good idea. You're… — Herb Kelleher
The one thing that I think separates Microsoft from a lot of other people is we make bold bets. We're persistent about them, but we… — Steve Ballmer
The most persistent threat to freedom, to the rights of Americans, is fear. — George Meany

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