Resist Persist Quotes

#1. Persist and resist". Persist in your efforts. Resist giving into distraction, discouragement, and disorder. - Epictetus

Ryan Holiday

#2. Hey, ah, does anyone want a cookie or something? Oh yeah. A cookie. That would make everything better. Dunked in a shot of tequila , maybe? Or better yet, just the bottle? Yeah, that ought to do it.

Kim Harrison

#3. The fact that the human act is self-directed or built up means in no sense that the actor necessarily exercises excellence in its construction. Indeed, he may do a very poor job in constructing his act.

Herbert Blumer

#4. To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.

Alan Watts

#5. There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable activity from a very young age.

Lisa Lucas

#6. I will dance and resist and dance and persist and dance. This heartbeat is louder than death.

Suheir Hammad

#7. Whenever I'd go to restaurants, the main chef came out and was cooking for me, and he's asking me how the food is. I get, like, VIP service, so it's weird.

Inbee Park

#8. We have creative freedom because of budgets. Ever since I have been doing low budget movies, we've really had creative freedom.

Jason Blum

#9. Lay ye down the golden chain From Heaven, and pull at its inferior links Both Goddesses and Gods.

Homer

#10. What you resist will persist; what you befriend, you will transcend.

Robin Sharma

#11. How beautiful it is to have inner peace while knowing that everyone is busy with their own battles in life.

Debasish Mridha

#12. In short, realism reveals. Where we thought nothing worthy of notice, it shows everything to be rife with significance.

George Parsons Lathrop

#13. When resistance closes the door against you, remember that persistence holds the key. Don't give up too early; insist to endure to the end ... You will never regret it!

Israelmore Ayivor

#14. I've been very much intrigued by and impressed with women. But I've never been intimidated. Even if I make a fool of myself, it's better to have tried.

Kellan Lutz

#15. Whatever you resist will persist.

Henry Ford

#16. But I feel this, Helen: I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly. It is as natural as that I should love those who show me affection, or submit to punishment when I feel it is deserved.

Charlotte Bronte

#17. What we resist, will persist.

Sally Brampton

#18. Whatever you resist, persists.

Adyashanti

#19. In life when we feel we have reached a limit, that is when the true battle begins. Just when you despair and think it is impossible to go any further, will you become apathetic, or will you say it's not over and stand up with an unyielding spirit? The battle is decided by this single determination.

Daisaku Ikeda

#20. I always thought of myself as the Kaneda of our dyad, but here I was playing Tetsuo.

Junot Diaz

#21. I want to draw you a floorplan of my head and heart. I want to give directions, helpful hints. What you'll be looking for.

Sara Quin

#22. You got to insist on your success, resist every obstacle and persist in times of difficulty and you will get there.

Israelmore Ayivor

#23. Persistence wears down resistance.

William J. Federer

#24. I spent a long time trying to make it in the commercial world hoping that commercials would then lead to movies. That was a less-travelled path at the time, although it's very well-travelled now.

Dan Trachtenberg

#25. I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own.

Alexander McCall Smith