Persistent Quotes

271 quotes by 236 authors

I think it's imperative to follow your heart and choose a profession you're passionate about, and if you haven't found that 'spark' yet, if you're… — Steve Kerr
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums. — Arthur Koestler
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all… — Orison Swett Marden
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony… — Peace Pilgrim
The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this… — Paul Ryan
And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America. — Tom Vilsack
I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The… — Sanford I. Weill
Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been… — Martin Filler
One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at… — Martin Filler
Technological defeatism - a belief that, since a given technology is here to stay, there's nothing we can do about it other than get on… — Evgeny Morozov
The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening effect upon the… — Baroness Orczy
The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to… — John F. Kennedy
Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations,… — Joseph Conrad
My most persistent memory of stand - up is of my mouth being in the present and my mind being in the future: the mouth… — Steve Martin
Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder. — Flann O'Brien
It's only those who are persistent and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the master work. — Paulo Coelho
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth. — Dorothy Thompson
It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" -- that one's own… — John Wyndham
Hope is a state of mind independent of the state of the world. If your heart's full of hope, you can be persistent when you… — William Sloane Coffin

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