Best Persistent Quotes

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man’s history is the beating of war drums.

Test knowledge through experience, be prepared to make mistakes, and be persistent about it.

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

I’ve been in the business since I was 16, so I’ve had a 14-year career. I’ve always had acting in my blood. Doing this, whatever it is, was something I was drawn to since my earliest memories. Ironically, I lived in Hollywood, but never understood that all it took was getting an agent and being persistent.

Deep, persistent problems are never solved by accident; they are solved only by people who are obsessed with them and set out to solve them directly.

There’s always negatives no matter what you’re in in life. However if you keep being persistent the negative usually becomes a positive.

Lawyering is very individualistic. There are lawyers who are going to be that persistent birddog, they’re never going to give up on the client, they’re going to defend people.

The measure of woman’s distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr’s crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.

I believe that persistent effort, supported by a character-based foundation, will enable you to get more of the things money will buy and all of the things money won’t buy.

No matter how diligent or persistent you have been, there is not one of us who made this journey toward success by ourselves.

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

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

Persistent work triumphs.

That’s one way of looking at it. I prefer to look at it another way—which is that if they are persistent enough, even tiny drops of water, over time, can change the rock forever. And it will never change back.

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.

The persistent advocates of contraceptive-style sex education have become more and more resourceful in using taxpayer funds to impose their casual-sex attitudes and explicit-sex instruction on other people’s children.

Often when people first hear this part of the Secret they recall events in history where masses of lives were lost, and they find it incomprehensible that so many people could have attracted themselves to the event. By the law of attraction, they had to be on the same frequency as the event. . . .those thoughts of fear, separation, and powerlessness, if persistent, can attract them to being in the wrong place at the wrong time

There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else – but persistent.

Destiny is another name for humanity’s half-hearted yet persistent search for death. Again and again peoples have had the chance to live and show what would happen if human life were irrigated by continual happiness; and they have preferred to blow up the canals and perish of drought.

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

If people believe they can be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and they have no control over outside circumstances, those thoughts of fear, separation, and powerlessness, if persistent, can attract them to being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The only advice I can really give to the young filmmakers is to be persistent, don’t give up, and keep watching and making as many movies as you possibly can.

Nothing can come into your experience unless you summon it through persistent thoughts.

The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back.

Be persistent and just keep going to open mics no matter what, even if just to watch and not perform. You’ll find that even at your worst keep your head up because you’ll still be better than other people’s best.

Actually, I would love to make a music video. Maybe it would finally put to rest those persistent rumours that have followed me throughout my career – particularly when I was on camera performing – that I had died.

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

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.

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

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

Joys circular fulfillment was so persistent, when I was weak it gave me strength.

In a media-saturated world, persistent hype lends unwarranted credulity to the wildest claims.