Persistent Quotes
271 quotes by 236 authors
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The single largest frustration in the massage field is the waste of resources and training resulting from high attrition among those who start practicing massage…
— Bob Benson
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Courage, then, for the end draws near! A few more years of persistent, faithful work and the women of the United States will be recognized…
— Mary Livermore
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Passion and marriage are essentially irreconcilable. Their origins and their ends make them mutually exclusive. Their co-existence in our midst constantly raises insoluble problems, and…
— Denis de Rougemont
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Perhaps it would have been possible to see in him a new Prometheus...the hero who for the good of mankind exposes himself to the agonies…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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What is often called exceptional ability is nothing more than persistent endeavor.
— Pauli Murray
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For most people, lack of consistent, persistent effort is the biggest obstacle.
— Edgar Cayce
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By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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When you actively engage in gradually refining yourself, you retreat from your lazy ways of covering yourself or making excuses. Instead of feeling a persistent…
— Epictetus
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The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they've got is probably better than the…
— Seth Godin
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You must bring every particle of your energy, unanswerable resolution, your best efforts, your persistent industry to your task or the best will not come…
— Orison Swett Marden
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The most persistent hate is that which doth degenerate from love.
— Walter Map
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I think any start has to be a false start because really there’s no way to start. You just have to force yourself to sit…
— Elif Batuman
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If you are persistent, you will succeed
— Thomas S. Monson
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Those who are the most persistent, and work in the true spirit, will invariably be the most successful.
— Samuel Smiles
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Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to…
— Truman Capote
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Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Every man must decide whether he will walk in the creative light of altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment. Life's…
— Martin Luther
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It's difficult to change overnight but if you are persistent and take one step at a time you will see results!
— Jack LaLanne
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Good things come to those who have patience and take consistent, persistent actions toward what they want.
— Jeffrey Gitomer
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To be able to donate money to effect change is extremely exciting. I think I'm very determined and persistent. All the things that you need…
— Jan Cameron
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