Persist Quotes

When we persist in looking for and finding what there is to value within our self, we discover a pure and loving being.

One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name a portion of the earth's surface after my father.

I know it sounds hard to believe, but habits laid down by our ancestors persist even after the conditions that created those habits have gone away.

While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.

I will persist until I succeed. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.

The doctor will persist in laboring under the delusion that patients want common sense instead of magic.

If things were half as bad as some people persist in believing, I'd have retired with a bottle of Scotch and a pistol a long time ago.

Truth has to persist unaffected, in the past, present and future. That which is absent in two states, how can it be true.

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

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

I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.

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

Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can't persist much longer. If it does, then we won't.

Persisting through lesser difficulties builds your capacity to persist through greater difficulties, and achieve even greater things.

He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.

remember this: no matter how politely or distinctly you ask a Parisian a question he will persist in answering you in French.

The world is not fair. If you persist in presuming it is, you will create a lot of unnecessary misery for yourself.

Making art, I try to just gently persist, instead of having freak-outs where I'm like, Oh, my god, I'll never draw again. You are going to draw again, so you might as well relax.

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.

The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.

To be honest, I've never had an easy relationship with being a writer, though I persist.

What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.

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

Mutual fund manager performance does not persist and the return of stock picking is zero.

Freedom of the press and also of speech, assembly, and worship can persist as social forms and legal guarantees, while at the same time their functional realities can be gradually slipping away.

Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.

The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.

You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you.

You [should] persist even though there are some short-term stresses and even though there is some uncertainty, because it's the right thing to do.

I'm investing in myself, I'm investing in others and I'm investing in my cause. I know if I persist it will pay back in dividends and it always does.

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.

Whatever you resist, persists.

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.

Imports remain a concern with the currency holding at $US0.75 cents and cost pressures persist, in particular for power and transport.

On occasions when u feel most hopeless, u must take powerful effort. We must persist in face of failure.

I persist in performing.

Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable - should persist after the beauty is gone.

Proactively, and creatively, persist - day in and day out.

Recognize your highest calling as early in life as possible. Proactively and creatively persist, day in and day out. Leave an enduring legacy.

A man is called a traitor, or liberator. A rich man is a thief or philanthropist. Is one a crusader or ruthless invader? It's all in which label is able to persist.

In spite of all their kind some elements of worth With difficulty persist here and there on earth.

Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there.

If Heaven and Earth are unable to persist, how could man?

Since nothing else that I see merely through the senses can or will persist, He alone is.

I'm interested in endurance. People persist in the face of the most excruciating hardships.

We must find opportunities to make change happen - we must not tire, we must not give up, we must persist.

The culture will not be able to persist in light of the rigid systems of its own innocence.

If you persist in ignoring your intuition, you may find yourself stuck in a permanent holding pattern instead of taking the risks that lead to creative growth.

So long as there is breath in me, I will persist.