Persistent Quotes

271 quotes by 236 authors

The persistent appetite for human beings for community is what we should all be dedicated to. — Bob Maguire
Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn. — B.K.S. Iyengar
Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent. — Billy Graham
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation . — Franklin D. Roosevelt
America leads - not with bluster, but with persistent, steady resolve. — Barack Obama
Nature is what she is - amoral and persistent. — Stephen Jay Gould
Only people willing to work to the point of discomfort on a regular basis using effective means to produce that discomfort will actually look like… — Mark Rippetoe
Many children face chronic stress from nutritional deprivation or persistent violence at home or in the community. By addressing their medical, emotional and developmental needs… — Irwin Redlener
Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We only live once, since we are given the gift of life it should be our persistent endeavor to immortalize ourselves no matter what field… — Michael Jackson
The truth is that a vast restructuring of our society is needed if remedies are to become available to the average person. Without that restructuring… — William O. Douglas
Your persistent longing is your persistent voice. But when love grows cold, the heart grows silent. Burning love is the outcry of the heart! If… — Saint Augustine
The persistent man with a poor plan stands a better chance of winning than the man with a perfect plan who hesitates and waivers in… — Napoleon Hill
Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into… — John Drinkwater
At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly… — Joseph Sobran
I regret trusting The Guardian. I didn't want to do an interview, but the journalist was persistent. [The writer] was masked as a fan, but… — Lana Del Rey
Every immigrant family, it seems, has someone who does not belong in the new country they have come to. It feels like permanent exile to… — Michael Ondaatje
Of course you can do it. It doesn't require brilliance. It's just giving yourself permission and then being persistent. Persistent in seeing the problem or… — Bill Drayton
Joys circular fulfillment was so persistent, when I was weak it gave me strength. — Delano Johnson
The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service to Him. It is never 'Do, do' with the Lord, but 'Be, be' and He will… — Oswald Chambers

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