Top 37 Quotes About Persisting
#1. And I will place within them as a guide My umpire conscience, whom if they will hear Light after light well used they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive.
John Milton
#2. No, the thing that makes for greatness is determination, persisting in the right direction over the long haul, following your dream, staying at the task.
Charles R. Swindoll
#3. By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#4. Yes, we should pound our fists over persisting ills we see, but unless we also put our hands to work in providing workable solutions to those problems, what are we left with in the end but bruised fists and a bitter heart?
Jack Graham
#5. Wilson agreed reluctantly to their attempts: I don't much like to make a compromise with people who aren't reasonable. They will always believe that, by persisting in their claims, they will be able to obtain more.
Margaret MacMillan
#6. Watching, waiting and anticipating will only detract from visualising, persisting and succeeding' (1996)
Kieran Revell
#7. Our father knew more than any living person about the secret of time, except how to live in it. His time did not travel; it was a block of persisting nows.
Richard Powers
#8. I would advise persisting in our struggle for liberty, though it were revealed from Heaven that nine hundred and ninety-nine men were to perish, and only one of a thousand to survive and retain his liberty. One such freeman must possess more virtue, and enjoy more happiness, than a thousand slaves.
Samuel Adams
#9. In the Heart's cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting 'I' shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by
restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.
Ramana Maharshi
#10. Humans are in love with the idea of our persisting,' he said. 'We fetishize it, really. Our retirement funds, our genealogies. Our so-called ideas for the ages.
Barbara Kingsolver
#11. Dreams have a way of persisting. They just don't come true until you DO what you CAN.
Sana Rose
#12. We can speak, think, refer to ourselves as agents, and so build up the false idea of a persisting self that has consciousness and free will.
John Brockman
#13. Do mortal fools still measure the increments leading to their deaths, wagering pleasures against costs, persisting in the delusion that deeds have value, that the world and all the gods sit in judgment over every decision made or not made?
Steven Erikson
#14. Those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time among the refuse of fame, should add to their reason and their spirit the power of persisting in their pur
Samuel Johnson
#15. Every persisting marriage is based on fear', said Peregrine. 'Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what's at the bottom? Mean spiteful cruel self-regarding fear, whether it makes you to put the foot in it or whether it makes you to cower ...
Iris Murdoch
#16. Success comes from taking the initiative and following up ... persisting ... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?
Tony Robbins
#17. Social environment in childhood affects achieved adult height, life chances, and ultimately mortality rates in adult life. ( ... ) ... social circumstances acting in childhood do have a persisting effect on adult disease rates, in addition to influences acting in adulthood.
Michael Marmot
#18. Nobody hands you excellence on a silver platter. You earn it through planning, preparing, and persisting in the face of all obstacles.
Terry Orlick
#19. Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.
Alexander Pope
#20. Society is older than government. But every persisting society implies the existence of government and laws; for a society without government and laws is at once overturned by its madmen and scoundrels and lapses into barbarism.
William Batchelder Greene
#21. I was persisting in reading my present environment in the light of my old one.
Richard Wright
#22. Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
Andre Gide
#23. If a tactic has led to failure, then persisting with it unquestioningly, in the wild hope of a different outcome, is nothing
Amish Tripathi
#24. If someone does something we disapprove of, we regard him as bad if we believe we can deter him from persisting in his conduct, but we regard him as mad if we believe we cannot.
Thomas Szasz
#26. Persisting through lesser difficulties builds your capacity to persist through greater difficulties, and achieve even greater things.
Brian Tracy
#27. Persuade me or prove to me that I am mistaken in thought or deed, and I will gladly change - for it is the truth I seek, and the truth never harmed anyone. Harm comes from persisting in error and clinging to ignorance.
Marcus Aurelius
#28. But most often she watched the candles as if their outcome held her own, the flames almost extinguishing themselves, but, by some greed of oxygen, persisting.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#29. I've taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it's a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.
Alan Lightman
#30. And I've had vocal training on and off for years.
Julia Barr
#31. I've thought of everything, know what I mean?
Ken Kesey
#32. Heart-to-heart journaling is a dialogue with God where both you and God are talking and you are recording it on paper. Heart-to-heart journaling is simply writing out your thoughts to God and what you sense to be His answer or response to you.
Linda Boone
#34. Beware of people who fall at your feet. They may be reaching for the corner of the rug.
Bill Cosby
#35. Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect.
Jane Jacobs
#36. Each second is a universe, the second I live is the second I live in
Italo Calvino
#37. I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.
Sonia Sotomayor
