Persistent Quotes

Persistent Quote of the day

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

The greater and more persistent your confidence in God, the more abundantly you will receive all that you ask.

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

What is often called exceptional ability is nothing more than persistent endeavor.

At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.

Love is a consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to receive. The only demand of life is the privilege to love all.

You cannot give up - you have to be persistent and keep pushing, and press on.

Persistent calling upon the name of the Lord breaks through every stronghold of the devil, for nothing is impossible with God. For Christians in these troubled times there is simply no other way.

I went to my doctor and asked for something for persistent wind. He gave me a kite.

The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.

Mackay's Moral: If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it.

True purity, however, is a direction, a persistent, determined pursuit of righteousness. This direction starts in the heart, and we express it in a lifestyle that flees opportunities for compromise.

Keep moving forward, don't listen to the naysayers, persevere, be persistent.

Everything that happens-good and bad-should motivate you to be persistent.

I'm hard-nosed about luck...If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune.

One way or another, if you're persistent, fortune always smiles on you.

It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical quest for truth.

No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.

Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.

Oh, the glory of growth, silent, mighty, persistent, inevitable! To awaken, to open up like a flower to the light of a fuller consciousness!

Dialogue starts from the courageous willingness to know and be known by others. It is the painstaking and persistent effort to remove all obstacles that obscure our common humanity.

Persistent, internal inklings matched by external confirmation is often the way God directs believers into His will.

As long as you like me the best. And you think I’m good-looking—sort of. I’m prepared to be annoyingly persistent.

Be persistent in good actions.

Unity must be won, and only the workers, the class-conscious workers themselves can win it - by stubborn and persistent effort.

We only live once, since we are given the gift of life it should be our persistent endeavor to immortalize ourselves no matter what field of endeavor we choose.

Persistent work triumphs.

I am insulted by the persistent asertion that I want war. Am I a fool? War! It would settle nothing.

The voice of reason is small, but very persistent.

Irresolute men are sometimes very persistent in their undertakings, because if they give up their designs they would have to make a second resolution.

It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.

One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.

For most people, lack of consistent, persistent effort is the biggest obstacle.

If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more patient and more persistent.

It's difficult to change overnight but if you are persistent and take one step at a time you will see results!

We have persistent objects, they're called files.

Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer - can put us in touch with God, our greatest source of comfort and counsel.

Good things come to those who have patience and take consistent, persistent actions toward what they want.

Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.

To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude.

Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder.

You always have a second chance, as long as you believe you do and you try again, and stay positive and persistent and consistent.

He who is persistent will realize God. So try your best to make meditation a regular experience in your life.

By being persistent, you're demonstrating faith. Persistence is simply another word for faith. If you didn't have faith, you'd never persist.

Courage, then, for the end draws near! A few more years of persistent, faithful work and the women of the United States will be recognized as the legal equals of men.

It's only those who are persistent and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the master work.

By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.

The most persistent threat to freedom, to the rights of Americans, is fear.