Top 100 Persist Quotes
#1. But fools wil persist in their madness, will they not?
Maya Rodale
#2. The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
Tacitus
#3. When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the things that can no longer be the objectives of painting. Why should an artist persist in treating subjects that can be established so clearly with the lens of a camera?
Pablo Picasso
#4. The world will persist in exhibiting before you what you persist in affirming the world is.
Emma Curtis Hopkins
#5. For a finite-size system to persist in time (to live), it must evolve in such a way that it provides easier access to the imposed currents that flow through it.
Adrian Bejan
#6. We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Tobias Wolff
#7. To stop challenging someone from using anti-gay language simply because they persist in using anti-gay language strikes me as a defeatist approach.
Mallory Ortberg
#8. The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
Pope John Paul II
#9. Resolve in advance to persist until you succeed, no matter what the difficulty.
Brian Tracy
#10. We invest in undervalued companies that exhibit strong fundamentals, above-market dividend yields and historic earnings growth, which our analysis indicates will persist. Our strategy is to own strong, fundamentally sound companies and to avoid speculative stocks or potential bankruptcies.
David Dreman
#11. As the body cannot be sustained without corporeal food, nor continue in natural life, so without this life-giving food the soul cannot persist in the spiritual life of grace.
Denis The Carthusian
#12. Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it. Well, I'm Bob and I'm an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.
Bob Geldof
#13. But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm.
Algernon H. Blackwood
#14. We will make every effort to unify all ethnic groups, to strengthen belief in Taiwan and to persist in reform.
Chen Shui-bian
#15. The relic of the "why" of advertising seems to still persist: Since I, as the advertiser, am paying, you have to put up with whatever I dish out. But think of it this way: just because my date pays for my ticket or dinner, does that give them license to do anything they want? No.
Yoram Jerry Wind
#16. What is the world full of? It is full of things that arise, persist, and cease. Grasp and cling to them, and they produce suffering. Don't grasp and cling to them, and they do not produce suffering.
Buddhadasa
#17. So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.
Og Mandino
#18. Success is not a chance. It is destiny. It is not an option. It is your destination. Remember this. Keep doing it. Insist and persist in order to speed up the inevitable outcome.
Ryan Gavini
#19. Resilience is the maintenance of high levels of positive affect and well-being in the face of adversity. It is not that resilient individuals never experience negative affect, but rather that the negative affect does not persist.
Richard Davidson
#20. The lesson is never learned - there will always be those who persist in seeking the Fountain of Youth, or at least delaying what is irrevocably ordained.
Sherwin B. Nuland
#21. No culture in history has ever embraced moral relativism and survived. Our own culture, therefore, will either (1) be the first, and disprove history's clearest lesson, or (2) persist in its relativism and die, or (3) repent of its relativism and live. There is no other option.
Peter Kreeft
#22. The world can only appear monochromatic to those who persist in interpreting what they experience through the lens of a single cultural paradigm, their own. For those with the eyes to see and the heart to feel, it remains a rich and complex topography of the spirit.
Wade Davis
#23. My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of love. We persist, even when we get it wrong. That's the beauty of love.
Daniel Tammet
#24. In today's distorted world of 'human rights,' truth takes a back seat to ideology, and false claims - especially those that 'support' radical ideologies - persist even after they have been exposed.
Alan Dershowitz
#25. Persisting through lesser difficulties builds your capacity to persist through greater difficulties, and achieve even greater things.
Brian Tracy
#26. Seven key abilities human beings need to effectively manage life: the ability to motivate ourselves, to persist against frustration, to delay gratification, to regulate moods, to hope, to empathize, and to control impulse. Many
Gavin De Becker
#27. One should never permit a disorder to persist in order to avoid a war, for wars cannot be avoided and can only be deferred to the advantage of others.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#28. This is the difficult miracle of Black poetry in America: that we persist, published or not, and loved or unloved: we persist.
June Jordan
#29. A man of few words,
I just sit still on this hill,
I know death will persist,
I write when my mind is still,
I bleed daily to exist.
P.J. Bayliss
#30. 'I shall vomit,' said Hugh, 'if you persist in pestering me with all that odious rot.'
Vladimir Nabokov
#31. You have to persist when others give up. Remember this. Always.
Dhaval Gajera
#32. Why do you persist in this belief that punishment must be meted out from either God or Satan when the most relentless, merciless punisher is that within? For we can never escape its scourges and lashes.
John F.D. Taff
#33. God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spoke a Book and lives in His spoken words, constantly speaking His words and causing the power of them to persist across the years.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#34. We can do better ... We can't ignore the inequalities that persist in our justice system that undermine our most deeply held values of fairness and equality.
Hillary Clinton
#35. They think virtues are man-made, only exist because they exist, but if no human had ever existed, The Virtues would persist for they hold their being from the very Presence of the Adversary Himself.
Geoffrey Wood
#36. We must find opportunities to make change happen - we must not tire, we must not give up, we must persist.
Melanne Verveer
#38. Errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical.
Seneca.
#39. Whereas I, even now, persist in believing that these black marks on white paper bear the greatest significance, that if I keep writing I might be able to catch the rainbow of consciousness in a jar.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#40. I have a dream," he said slowly. "I persist in dreaming it, although it has often seemed to me that it could never come true. I dream of a home with a hearth-fire in it, a cat and dog, the footsteps of friends
and you!
L.M. Montgomery
#41. Recognize your highest calling as early in life as possible. Proactively and creatively persist, day in and day out. Leave an enduring legacy.
Frank McKinney
#42. Weakness will persist in part because of the vast amounts of debt governments took on during and after the financial crisis.
Anonymous
#43. You all cool?"
"I'm cool," confirmed Becks.
"I haven't been 'cool' since arriving in this godforsaken hellhole you persist in claiming is a civilized nation. I am, however, ready to go violate a few more laws.
Mira Grant
#44. There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.
Vint Cerf
#45. In spite of all their kind some elements of worth
With difficulty persist here and there on earth.
Hugh MacDiarmid
#46. If you persist in trying To attain what is never attained (It is Tao's gift!) If you persist in making effort To obtain what effort cannot get; If you persist in reasoning About what cannot be understood, You will be destroyed By the very thing you seek.
Thomas Merton
#47. I will dance and resist and dance and persist and dance. This heartbeat is louder than death.
Suheir Hammad
#48. You have to perform to the best of your ability, and if you have to argue stringently, if you have to persist and to state your case strongly, then you do it.
Bronwyn Bishop
#49. Challenges aren't frightening, defeats aren't terrifying either. A principle that I now insist and persist on is the understanding that you can fulfill your dreams when you work hard and don't give up.
Seungri
#50. Reincarnation ... makes life what it is intended to be
a glorious adventure in which victory is absolutely sure to be ours if we persist. It proves that man [is] ... master of his fate on his road to the stars.
Shaw Desmond
#51. Undervaluations caused by neglect or prejudice may persist for an inconveniently long time, and the same applies to inflated prices caused by over-enthusiasm or artificial stimulants.
Benjamin Graham
#52. The fact that we see something as evil may not necessarily make that thing evil. Evil cannot contest good; succeed and persist
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#53. A man is called a traitor, or liberator. A rich man is a theif or philanthropist. Is one a crusader or ruthless invader? It's all in which label is able to persist.
Gregory Maguire
#54. All great power has to do to destroy itself is persist in trying to do the impossible.
Stephen Vizinczey
#55. Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#56. This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.
Mikhail Bakunin
#57. Big results require big ambitions. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give. To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. - ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Bob Proctor
#58. The only thing we all have in common is that we play tricks in order to force ourselves to abandon the quest. The counter-measure is to persist in spite of all the barriers and disappointments.
Carlos Castaneda
#59. You [should] persist even though there are some short-term stresses and even though there is some uncertainty, because it's the right thing to do.
Simon Sinek
#60. If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers.
Edward Abbey
#62. Habits of thought persist through the centuries; and while a healthy brain may reject the doctrine it no longer believes, it will continue to feel the same sentiments formerly associated with that doctrine.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#63. Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#64. In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.
Nathan Myhrvold
#65. Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished.
Richard Eder
#66. What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#67. When you are trying to achieve success, never give up hope, persist because hope will never give up on you.
Robert Moment
#68. I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.
Agatha Christie
#69. Though the darkest of clouds may hide the summit I will persist until it is reached
Saul Delino
#70. What inspires you to do what you do is the reason why you persist, even in the face of trouble.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#71. Thoughts may come and persist in staying. But thoughts that are not put into word or action die unborn!
Kenneth E. Hagin
#72. we in the West have not bothered to develop an effective counternarrative because from the outset we have denied that Islamic extremism is in any way related to Islam. We persist in focusing on the violence and not on the ideas that give rise to it.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#73. Those who gain Greatness, often hit many obstacles. To succeed, persist, even when others tell you you will fail.
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#74. Keep your mind on your objective, and persist until you succeed. Study, think, and plan.
W. Clement Stone
#75. Persist in that invocation until the unity of the world is subsumed for you in a single sphere, so that with the eye of your heart you will see naught in the two worlds save the One.
Ibn Ata Allah
#76. People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.
William Hazlitt
#77. Mutual fund manager performance does not persist and the return of stock picking is zero.
William J. Bernstein
#78. Not simple intolerance but the tolerance of intolerance, which allows the intolerance to persist.
John Irving
#80. Sometimes the hardest thing to do in a pressure situation is to allow the tension to persist. The temptation is to make a decision, any decision, even if it is an inferior choice.
Garry Kasparov
#82. I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found. Why do I keep ignoring the place of true love and persist in looking for it elsewhere? Why do I keep leaving home where I am called a child of God, the Beloved of the Father? 9
J.P. Moreland
#83. Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing.
Tony Robbins
#84. To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.
Alan Watts
#85. I will persist. I will always take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another.
Og Mandino
#86. Believing in yourself means more than simply believing in your own ultimate success; it means believing you will survive failures, disappointments, rejections, and criticism but still persist.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#87. On occasions when u feel most hopeless, u must take powerful effort. We must persist in face of failure.
Dalai Lama
#88. Do we ever have to abandon all hope? Is it not perhaps a good thing that by refusing to give in to the evidence, the dreams that lie half awake in us all may persist?
Theodore Monod
#89. Once a trend is established it tends to persist and to run it's full course.
George Soros
#90. The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability.
Julia Gillard
#91. Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
#92. For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl Sagan
#93. Making art, I try to just gently persist, instead of having freak-outs where I'm like, Oh, my god, I'll never draw again. You are going to draw again, so you might as well relax.
Gary Panter
#94. To focus solely on endings is to trade conclusions for the very beginnings that created them. And if this cycle should persist, we will likewise miss the beginning that will follow this ending.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#95. It didn't matter how terrified I was. It didn't matter that there was no solution to the problem we faced. We would simply have to face it anyway. we didn't have to be brave or heroic, we merely had to persist. And I found that I could do that.
Rufi Thorpe
#96. Not much ever really comes of commissions, really. The last one that really came up with something truly concrete was the Warren Commission, and for all its good work, most Americans persist in believing that Oswald was working in tandem with the CIA, FBI, Lyndon Johnson, and the John Birch Society.
Christopher Buckley
#97. Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.
J.I. Packer
#98. It is likely that libraries will carry on and survive, as long as we persist in lending words to the world that surrounds us, and storing them for future readers.
Alberto Manguel
#99. When we persist in looking for and finding what there is to value within our self, we discover a pure and loving being.
Hugh Prather
#100. Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits
Robert Breault
