Top 100 Persistently Quotes
#1. Everything, no matter how evident or obvious, should be doubted, questioned, viewed with suspicion ... There is much to be gained from the discovery that one has been deeply, persistently, and utterly wrong.
David Mermin
#2. Since the earliest times it is as the exploiter that the Jew has been known amongst his fellow men of all races and creeds. Moreover, he has persistently shown himself ungrateful ... The Jews have always formed a rebellious element in every state.
Nesta Helen Webster
#3. For success, have a laser-like, purpose-oriented focus, and persistently go toward it.
Debasish Mridha
#4. When we fail, we think that is the end of life. Actually, it is the beginning of a greater life when we persistently preserved.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#5. Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
Alan W. Watts
#6. The gilded spiral
Of longings within.
Our very own cathedral
That points persistently to heaven.
Scott Hastie
#7. But the paradox is here: when cultivated people do stay away from a certain portion of the population, when all social advantages are persistently withheld, it may be for years, the result itself is pointed to as a reason and is used as an argument for the continued withholding.
Jane Addams
#8. the brilliant balance of the gospel that Luther so persistently expounded - "We are saved by faith alone, but not by faith which is alone.
Eric Metaxas
#9. A UNITED civilization is possible only when human relations are balanced in all transactions which have to do with the distribution of the values of life which all men persistently and constantly seek.
Walter Russell
#10. To speak eagerly is one thing, to act persistently is another matter entirely.
Eraldo Banovac
#11. Success is knowing your God given life purpose and pursuing it Passionately, Persistently, and Consistently until you die.
Tom Cunningham
#12. When you try to persistently abolish hatred,
at that very moment ... you lose focus on love.
Toba Beta
#13. Martin Williams persistently gets at essences, and that is why he has contributed so much to the very small body of authentic jazz criticism.
Nat Hentoff
#14. The Great Zaganza said: You are very fat and stupid and persistently wear a ridiculous hat which you should be ashamed of.
Douglas Adams
#15. It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word
on the contrary, he persistently bore insult from others and thus put an end to the fray.
Epictetus
#16. No man in America has ever stood up so persistently and effectively for the dignity of human nature, knowing himself for a man, and the equal of any and all governments. In that sense he was the most American of us all.
Henry David Thoreau
#17. William James described success as a combination of two things. An inner ideal which is followed persistently with courage and Outer achievement related to that ideal.
Jim Rohn
#18. We wrongly but persistently expect to make different decisions tomorrow than we do today
Kelly McGonigal
#19. I believe the role that people like myself have played in the transformation of public opinion has been by persistently presenting a different point of view, a point of view which stresses the importance of private markets, of individual freedom, and the distorting effect of governmental policy.
Milton Friedman
#20. If you persistently seek validation from others, you will inadvertently invalidate your own self-worth.
Auliq Ice
#21. It is serving God and others persistently with full heart and soul that turns testimony of truth into unbreakable spiritual strength.
Henry B. Eyring
#22. Persistently worrying yourself over what life throws at you never makes it better but deters you from your set goals in life.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#23. 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 for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#24. There was no need to remind Roosevelt who controlled the senate. "I persistently refused to lose my temper," he recalled. "I merely explained good-humoredly that I had made up my mind." Though he steadfastly refused
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#26. God always gives riches to diligent people who persistently aim for the goal and who continue to be diligent
Sunday Adelaja
#27. God wants us to move persistently towards His goals
Sunday Adelaja
#28. We must persistently establish God's truth and stand for it to the end
Sunday Adelaja
#29. Work diligently. Diligently. Work patiently and persistently. Patiently and persistently. And you're bound to be successful. Bound to be successful.
S. N. Goenka
#30. There is something very peculiar about this form of atheism: It tries to constantly remind us of God while maintaining He does not exist! How can you hate something that is not there? Why would you persistently prove to people the non-existence of a being really not there?
Gerard Verschuuren
#31. When we're stressed, our brains persistently mis-predict what will make us happy.
Kelly McGonigal
#32. I have been astonished to see how nature uses devastation to stimulate new growth, slowly but persistently healing her own wounds.
Parker J. Palmer
#33. Sorrow is not a raven perched persistently above a chamber door. Sorrow is a thing with teeth, and while in time it retreats, it comes back at the whisper of it's name.
Dean Koontz
#34. If you want to be successful, begin to work zealously and persistently
Sunday Adelaja
#35. To be a great success, persistently plan and have a prospective and purpose.
Debasish Mridha
#36. The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness?
Andre Gide
#37. If you consistently and persistently do the things that other successful people do, nothing in the world can stop you from being a big success also.
Brian Tracy
#38. PERFORM all acts with as much love as you would offer God. In Truth, you eat for the satisfaction of the I in you and dress up to please the self-same I . The husband loves his wife for the sake of the I . And who is this I that is persistently inherent in everyone? It is God Himself.
Sathya Sai Baba
#39. Arguing face to face can be a powerful thing, and done deftly and persistently, it can reinforce and build respect itself, even across major differences.
Anthony Weston
#40. 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 caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.
Laurence Housman
#41. How could a person possibly become what he is not thinking? Nor is any thought, when persistently entertained, too small to have its effect. The 'divinity that shapes our ends' is indeed ourselves.
Spencer W. Kimball
#42. Habits of everyday life are lost when traveling around the world; the stimulus of seeing occurs persistently in the foreground.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#43. Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#44. If I am always standing at the bottom of the mountain longingly looking up, in all probability it is because I have heeded the pillaging dogma of mediocrity which persistently tells me that the dream is not worth the climb.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#45. It takes courage, strength, and conviction to love someone deeply, persistently, and endlessly.
Debasish Mridha
#46. Why the histories of states should have so persistently insinuated themselves in the place that might have been occupied by peoples merits reflection.
James C. Scott
#47. Twentieth century music is like paedophilia. No matter how persuasively and persistently its champions urge their cause, it will never be accepted by the public at large, who will continue to regard it with incomprehension, outrage and repugnance.
Kingsley Amis
#48. Not only do the oppressed lose nothing when people of conscience boycott institutions that are persistently complicit in the system of oppression; in fact, they gain enormously from the ultimate weakening of this complicity that an effective and sustained boycott leads to.
Omar Barghouti
#49. She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.
Edith Wharton
#50. So, you think you are saving them by persistently harassing them, interfering in their rituals, and even trying to kill them.
Amish Tripathi
#51. While you are so busy trying to make yourself humble,
many are persistently and quietly promoting themselves.
Toba Beta
#52. 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
#53. He felt persistently that the girl was beautiful- then of a sudden he understood: it was her distance, not a rare and precious distance of soul but still distance, if only in terrestrial yards.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#54. I believe that their is a duality to the purpose of our life, and it is LOVE and CREATION. To LOVE the life we have - authentically and unconditionally, while we CREATE the best life we can imagine - actively and persistently. This is what L.I.F.E. (Living Inspired & Fulfilled Everyday) is about!
Hal Elrod
#55. To be contemplative we must remove the clutter from our lives, surround ourselves with beauty, and consciously, relentlessly, persistently, give clutter away until the tiny world for which we ourselves are responsible begins to reflect the raw beauty that is God.
Joan D. Chittister
#56. Technique itself springs from play, because we can acquire technique only by the practice of practice, by persistently experimenting and playing with our tools and testing their limits and resistances.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
#57. Rights are not easy to obtain, and once we understand this, we must work attentively and persistently - and never become careless or lazy.
Malalai Joya
#58. I hate to point out the obvious, but here's this tiny bird that's been trying to get through a huge bulletproof glass wall. A totally impossible situation. You tell me it's been here every day pecking away persistently for ten minutes. Well, today the glass wall came down.
Kevin Kwan
#59. Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering.
Muhammad Ali
#60. Your life will reflect what you persistently think about.
Debasish Mridha
#61. Radical servanthood challenges us, while attempting persistently to overcome poverty, hunger, illness, and any other form of human misery, to reveal the gentle presence of our compassionate God in the midst of our broken world.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#62. They persistently refused to support either armed party and believed that both sides were but the reflection of one reality, and the true enemies were not people, but ideology, hatred, and ignorance.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#63. Gerald Middleton was a man of mildly but persistently depressive temperament. Such men are not at their best at breakfast, nor is the week before Christmas their happiest time.
Angus Wilson
#64. Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.
Emma Goldman
#65. A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#66. What if the only thing standing in the way of your greatness was that you just had to go after everything obsessively, persistently, and as though your life depended on it?
Grant Cardone
#67. Do it! People who succeed don't just sit and think about what they want to do. They take meaningful, purposeful, directional action consistently and persistently. Every step they take puts them toward the outcome they're looking for.
Phil McGraw
#68. Life is that which - pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially - interrupts.
Cynthia Ozick
#69. The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good.
Philip Yancey
#70. The American public has been persistently told that the Korean people are a degenerate and contemptible nation, incapable of better things, intellectually inferior, and better off under Japanese rule than independent.
Homer B. Hulbert
#71. Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#72. Nothing evades our attention as persistently as that which we take for granted ... the decades roll on without even a suggestion that perhaps the whole matter must be rethought
Marion Brady
#74. True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
Francis Of Assisi
#75. It is a curious fact that the lure of a "good investment" seems to haunt clergymen more persistently than any other class of man. Perhaps it is the modern equivalent of the demons in female shape who used to haunt the anchorites of the Dark Ages.
George Orwell
#76. Governments have persistently tried their best to promote, encourage, and expand the circulation of bank and government paper, and to discourage the people's use of gold itself.
Murray Rothbard
#77. Success comes from persistently improving and inventing, not from persistently promoting what's not working.
Derek Sivers
#78. The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile.
Albert J. Nock
#80. Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
Oswald Chambers
#81. To succeed in any undertaking, any art or any trade or any profession, simply keep it ever persistently fixed in mind as an aim, and then study to make all effort toward it play or recreation. The moment it becomes hard work, we are not advancing.
Prentice Mulford
#82. Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.
William Arthur Ward
#83. Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
Timothy Keller
#85. A persistently fruitless hearer of the Word cannot be a disciple of Jesus
John Piper
#86. An author should be delighted, not annoyed when he hears himself persistently misquoted. He could receive no higher compliment. It proves that the world has frequent and urgent need of his thoughts and will rather change the manner in which he expresses them than do without the things expressed.
Hesketh Pearson
#87. A daddy-long-legs shot from corner to corner and hit the lamp globe. The wind blew straight dashes of rain across the window, which flashed silver as they passed through the light. A single leaf tapped hurriedly, persistently, upon the glass. There was a hurricane out at sea.
Virginia Woolf
#88. Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.
Evelyn Waugh
#89. What we think and love persistently will be what we become.
Debasish Mridha
#90. Snowstorms may yet whiten fields and gardens, high winds may howl about the trees and chimneys, but the little blue heralds persistently proclaim from the orchard and the garden that the spring procession has begun to move.
Neltje Blanchan
#91. Only in the struggle between two philosophies can the weapon of brutal force, persistently and ruthlessly applied, lead to a decision for the side it supports.
Adolf Hitler
#92. You also want to fire people who a) create office politics, and b) who are persistently negative.
Sam Altman
#93. cross-national studies show that the U.S. poverty rate, which stands persistently above 12 percent, is not only the highest poverty rate of any advanced industrial nation, but is more than twice the average for that group.
Pursuing the American Dream, 9, 276
Calvin C. Jillson
#94. Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.
Charles Dudley Warner
#95. Seattle, the mild green queen: wet and willing, cedar-scented, and crowned with slough grass, her toadstool scepter tilted toward Asia, her face turned ever upward in the rain; the sovereign who washes her hands more persistently than the most fastidious proctologist.
Tom Robbins
#96. Success means leaving everything behind and standing persistently towards our aims with great determination.
Rajasaraswathii
#97. We lose the understanding that death always begets life of some sort, and that life is always an opportunist, persistently standing ready to build something out of the smoldering ashes and raise something up out of the tangled carnage.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#98. Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason.
Archibald Cox
#99. Success, in every case, comes from the alchemy of your health, your mind, your positive energy, and the real world situations you persistently improve for yourself.
James Altucher
#100. How does a culture that prizes equality of opportunity explain, or indeed accommodate, its persistently marginalized people?
Nancy Isenberg
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