Persist Quotes
By being persistent, you're demonstrating faith. Persistence is simply another word for faith. If you didn't have faith, you'd never persist.
They who depend upon manifest observations will philosophize better than those who persist in opinions repugnant to the senses.
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm.
At the heart of the problem is the fact that the United States is a racially divided nation where extreme racial inequalities continue to persist.
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.
Without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely to be worth the journey. Persist.
There are no black holes - in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity. There are however apparent horizons which persist for a period of time.
All great power has to do to destroy itself is persist in trying to do the impossible.
There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.
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.
Superior leaders are willing to admit a mistake and cut their losses. Be willing to admit that you've changed your mind. Don't persist when the original decision turns out to be a poor one.
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.
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.
. . . 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.
We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.
We're so used to having everything we want at our fingertips so I think that when things get tough it's difficult for people to persist through that.
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.
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.
Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits
A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is burned out.
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!
Never consider the possibility of failure; as long as you persist, you will be successful.
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.
We will make every effort to unify all ethnic groups, to strengthen belief in Taiwan and to persist in reform.
Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in mood, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement-mixer long after one's own interest in the topic has waned.
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.
We are facing a stiff wind right now, but if we persist and keep fighting back, we will prevail.
The deep inequalities that persist are visible reminders of the effects of apartheid and colonialism. Until these scars are healed, the vision of our Constitution will not have been achieved.
One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.
We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.
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.
Persistence is the iron quality of success; if you persist long enough you must eventually succeed
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.
It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation.
We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
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.