Best Persistently Sayings
68 Persistently quotes by 64 unique authors
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A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves…
— G I Gurdjieff
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Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do wrong; yet these…
— Thomas Hardy
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The major lesson Tiggers need to learn is that if they don't control their impulses, their impulses will control them. No matter how much they…
— Benjamin Hoff
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Do not become archivists of facts. Try to penetrate to the secret of their occurrence, persistently search for the laws which govern them.
— Ivan Pavlov
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By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
— Oscar Wilde
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We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think he has never…
— Mark Twain
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A precept or command is a general teaching of God, obligating every man under pain of mortal sin - namely, in cases in which he…
— Jan Hus
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My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it…
— Laurence Housman
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The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good.
— Philip Yancey
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The conflation of the simple in style with the morally prescriptive in character, and the complex in style with the amoral or anarchic in character,…
— Zadie Smith
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Faith is an invisible and invincible magnet, and attracts to itself whatever it fervently desires and calmly and persistently expects.
— Ralph Waldo Trine
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Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently.
— Samuel Butler
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To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with…
— Peter McWilliams
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A person who persistently insults others, can be forced to feel foolish if, he is continuously ignored.
— Senoraroy
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Your ego seeks conflict; it loves nothing better than to win battles for you, sadly as it wins, you often lose respect and friendships. If…
— Kemmy Nola
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Even a weakness can be an advantage if you sell it persistently.
— Mak_786
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He who fights against monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. And when you stare persistently into…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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