Top 100 Persist Quotes
#1. Do not attempt to lose weight without training your muscles at the same time. Prepare, plan, and persist...and get it right the first time. This
Ellington Darden
#2. Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
Ovid
#3. It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.
Marcus Aurelius
#4. I tried chemo, but chemo and I didn't agree, so we didn't persist.
Joan Kirner
#5. Spinoza spoke of vitality as the purest virtue, the only virtue. The drive to persist, to flourish, he said, is the absolute quality shared by all living beings. What happens, however, when vitality is inverted, and instead of flourishing, one is driven to eat oneself alive?
Michael Greenberg
#6. You can accomplish virtually any goal you set for yourself, as long as the goal is clear and you persist long enough.
Brian Tracy
#7. Tech companies have a finite lifespan: For the successful ones, an IPO or exit is never more than a few years off. But by recruiting locally and developing homegrown talent, companies can build something that remains after they're gone. People, skills and a culture of innovation persist.
Ryan Holmes
#8. Beliefs. Once entrenched in a culture, they persist, evolve and diverge, in a manner reminiscent of biological evolution.
Richard Dawkins
#9. Imports remain a concern with the currency holding at $US0.75 cents and cost pressures persist, in particular for power and transport.
Christofer Drew
#10. Be consistent with what you believe and do. Persist and insist that you will do it till it's done and done well.
Israelmore Ayivor
#11. To be honest, I've never had an easy relationship with being a writer, though I persist.
Peter Gizzi
#12. Proactively, and creatively, persist - day in and day out.
Frank McKinney
#13. Setbacks are common enemies of both achievers and people whose dream cut short. The difference is that the former persist against continual setbacks while the latter quit.
Assegid Habtewold
#15. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#16. Management, a science? Of course not, it's just a waste-paper basket full of recipes which provided the dish of the day during a few years of plenty and economic growth. Now the recipes are inappropriate and the companies which persist in following them will disappear.
Leon Courville
#17. The wish to acquire is no doubt a natural and common sentiment, and when men attempt things within their power, they will always be praised rather than blamed. But when they persist in attempts that are beyond their power, mishaps and blame ensue.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#18. After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor.
George William Russell
#20. President Heber J. Grant often quoted the following statement, which is sometimes attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson: That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do-not that the nature of the thing is changed, but that our power to do is increased.'
Heber J. Grant
#21. It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable.
Andrew Cohen
#22. Persistence is the iron quality of success; if you persist long enough you must eventually succeed
Brian Tracy
#23. Each day that you persist in a situation where you are miserable is a day wasted on the path that would lead you to happiness.
Twinkle Khanna
#24. She half suspected that he had had been ordered by contract to look mouth-watering at all times. If he hadn't, it was really rude of him to persist in it. It was distracting.
Andrea D. Smith
#25. What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now remain are to persist here a while. Ideally this would call for a broad cultural rapprochment with the wild, a long overdue armistice in civilization's war upon it.
Stephanie Mills
#26. And why did everyone persist in thinking the mute was exactly as they wanted him to be
when most likely it was all a very queer mistake? ... In the battling tumult of voices he alone was silent.
Carson McCullers
#27. Ever since the Great Depression, economists have known that demand shortages tend to persist in the wake of severe financial crises like the ones that happened in 1929 and 2008.
Bob Frank
#28. Never consider the possibility of failure; as long as you persist, you will be successful.
Brian Tracy
#29. Hope is the whisper of our soul. It is always with you. So never give up. Persist with love.
Debasish Mridha
#30. You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
Edward O. Wilson
#31. The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
Adam Smith
#32. Thousands of hopeful days came to naught before this one. This was a golden day. Never give up.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#33. We come to love those we serve. If we choose to begin to serve the Master out of even a glimmer of faith, we will begin to know Him. We will come to know His purposes for the people we serve for Him. Even when they do not accept our offer to serve them, we will feel His appreciation if we persist.
Henry B. Eyring
#34. I believe persistence is a major key to success in any great endeavor. I want to remind folks to PERSIST in whatever they are tackling at the moment!
Andy Andrews
#35. If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.
Dave Pelzer
#36. No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
Samuel Johnson
#37. The only way things will happen is if people get over the notion that they must see immediate success. If they get over that notion and persist, then they will see things happen before they even realize it.
Howard Zinn
#38. Shit, money, and the World, the three American truths, powering the American mobility, claimed the Slothrops, clasped them for good to the country's fate. But they did not prosper ... about all they did was persist
Thomas Pynchon
#39. The silencing of the Haitian Revolution is only a chapter within a narrative of global domination. It is part of the history of the West and it is likely to persist, even in attenuated form, as long as the history of the West is not retold in ways that bring forward the perspective of the world.
Michel-Rolph Trouillot
#41. One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.
Kevin Kelly
#42. To persist with a goal, you must treasure the dream more than the costs of sacrifice to attain it.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#43. Faith does not make things happen. It merely breeds perseverance; which helps one persist in making things happen.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#44. But few students practice these strategies, and those who do will need more than encouragement if they are to practice them effectively: It turns out that even when students understand that retrieval practice is a superior strategy, they often fail to persist long enough to get the lasting benefit.
Peter C. Brown
#45. That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#46. Early traumatization is a major risk factor for more severe symptoms that persist over time. Thus childhood traumatization plays a central role in the development of trauma-related disorders in children and adults.
Onno Van Der Hart
#47. We all have our own patterns, I guess ... And whether we like it or not, they persist.
Jael McHenry
#48. If you can persist your originality at every situation without masking your face, undoubtedly you are an achiever!
Nelson Jack
#49. Persist. Practice. Experiment. Imagine. Do your best work, and all else will follow.
Sandi Metz
#50. You got to insist on your success, resist every obstacle and persist in times of difficulty and you will get there.
Israelmore Ayivor
#51. Love is always mutual and reflective. You may hate me, and if I want to love you, you repulse me. But if I persist, in a month or a year you are bound to love me. It is a well-known psychological phenomenon.
Swami Vivekananda
#52. But all categories of art, idealistic or realistic, surrealistic or constructivist (a new form of idealism) must satisfy a simple test (or they are in no sense works of art): they must persist as objects of contemplation.
Herbert Read
#53. Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of radio, believed that sound waves never completely die away, that they persist, fainter and fainter, masked by the day-to-day noise of the world. Marconi thought that if he could only invent a microphone powerful enough, he would be able to listen to ancient times.
Hari Kunzru
#54. consider the common practice of setting up regularly occurring meetings for projects. These meetings tend to pile up and fracture schedules to the point where sustained focus during the day becomes impossible. Why do they persist? They're easier.
Cal Newport
#55. When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each photograph was a mirror of my Self.
Minor White
#57. Don't give up; try again. Be still and work it out till your good becomes the best! Dream high above the sky!
Israelmore Ayivor
#58. I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-"
"It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule.
Shannon Hale
#59. Most people are impulsive, however, and having committed to the thing, they persist, just making more confusion for themselves and others until it all end in mutual recrimination.
Epictetus
#60. Once again, it must be reiterated that beliefs and practices that developed in response to earlier, and presumably different, environmental pressures tend to persist, and the result may come to be far less than efficient utilization of an environment
Don Edward Beck
#61. Greatness is what remains when that talent and vision meet adversity - and persist in the face of it.
Lewis Howes
#62. Like the periwig and the bowler hat, the plus-four and the bow-tie, the blazer is on the way out, and those who persist in wearing it do so with a smattering of self-consciousness, a touch of obstinacy, even a pinch of camp.
Craig Brown
#63. Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare - the brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone
Tacitus
#64. The world is not fair. If you persist in presuming it is, you will create a lot of unnecessary misery for yourself.
Fred Green
#66. If you persist over time, refusing to take offense, making your motive genuine, showing respect, and constantly searching for Mutual Purpose, then the other person will almost join you in a dialogue.
Ron McMillan
#67. So do flux and reflux
the rhythm of change
alternate and persist in everything under the sky.
Thomas Hardy
#68. We did not make this world...and our childhood inclinations about how to succeed in it turn out to be wrong: often our courage is needed not to dramatically change reality but to accept it and persist in it.
Jennifer Michael Hecht
#69. If you can find just one place of pleasure within, than you can find the courage to persist.
Tania Elizabeth
#70. And how long dost thou expect this dying of thine to persist?' The voice seemed only mildly curious.
'I don't know' I replied through a sudden wave of self pity. 'I've never done it before.
David Eddings
#71. It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
Socrates
#72. My three P's would be pray, pray first. Second, prepare, and then persist.
Tim Scott
#73. If we persist in our restless desire to know everything about the universe and ourselves, then we must not be afraid of what the artist brings back from his voyage of discovery.
Herbert Read
#74. Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for.
Mark Twain
#75. Yes, it's good to be able to block things out. But maybe the terrible images persist for a reason: to tell the truth. Which is a terrible and terribly important thing.
Margaret Ajemian Ahnert
#76. I have faith in my future. I do not look left or right. I look forward. I can only persist.
Andy Andrews
#77. You persist in this romantic vision of what it is to be a vampire, but despite my best efforts to curb it I have a taste for blood.
Deborah Harkness
#78. To persist in doing wrong extenuates not the wrong, but makes it much more heavy.
William Shakespeare
#79. When you realize that prosperity is your divine
heritage, you should persist in claiming it.
Catherine Ponder
#80. The nations of the world are becoming more and more dependent on one another and it will not be possible to preserve a lasting peace so long as glaring economic and social imbalances persist.
Pope John XXIII
#81. As long as we persist in our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow.
Denis Waitley
#82. Laws are broken. Existence holds to no laws. Existence is what persists, and to persist is to struggle. In the end, the struggle fails.
Steven Erikson
#83. And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.
Algernon H. Blackwood
#84. Persist - don't take no for an answer. If you're happy to sit at your desk and not take any risk, you'll be sitting at your desk for the next 20 years.
David Rubenstein
#85. We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that away, then we all simply vanish.
Dinaw Mengestu
#86. ...there's goodness and purpose and reason out there. Believe it, embrace it, trust it. Life will always be hard, but if we do our best, if we persist, we can make a difference---and good will win out over evil, love will conquer hate...
Camron Wright
#87. You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you.
Robert Breault
#88. The palimpsests of molecules need not be overwritten, for machines make once-ephemeral words persist: they collect in gutters; they pile up and require sweeping; they hang in air like morning fog.
Dexter Palmer
#89. What is it about her? he wondered hopelessly. What did she offer him that he couldn't find elsewhere? Why did he persist in seeking her out, thinking about her, wanting her, when she was exactly wrong for him in nearly every way?
Rebecca Coleman
#90. In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples.
Kofi Annan
#91. Ever notice the word 'rough' in through? There is truth to that, though the way may be rough, we are still able to get through it.
Anthony Liccione
#92. If I persist long enough I will win.
Og Mandino
#94. The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally,
and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures
Warren G. Bennis
#96. Persistence is important in every endeavor. Whether it's finishing your homework, completing school, working late to finish a project, or "finishing the drill" in sports, winners persist to the point of sacrifice in order to achieve their goals.
Lee Ellis
#97. In my own behalf, I rejoice that I could once think better of the world's improvability than it deserved. It is a mistake into which men seldom fall twice in a lifetime; or, if so, the rarer and higher is the nature that can thus magnanimously persist in error.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#98. I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
Seneca The Younger
#99. Believe, persist, and follow, and we shall find the peace we seek.
Anonymous
#100. We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
Frank Moore Colby
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