Persist Quotes
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It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.
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Commend while others are criticizing, persist while others are quitting
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In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence , an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how can one dismiss something that persists despite every reasonable theory that it shouldn't?
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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If they persist with it, they will be dealt with according to law.
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Decide exactly what you want and resolve to persist, no matter what, until you achieve it.
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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.
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In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.
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You can accomplish virtually any goal you set for yourself, as long as the goal is clear and you persist long enough.
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There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.
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Success comes to those who are willing to launch toward their goals with no guarantees of success - and persist when there is every reason to give up.
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If it were any other way, it would be easy. And if it were any other way, everyone would do it and your work would ultimately be devalued. The yin and yang are clear: without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely it would be worth the journey. Persist.
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Your most vauluable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.
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People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.
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Resolve in advance to persist until you succeed, no matter what the difficulty.
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Persisting through lesser difficulties builds your capacity to persist through greater difficulties, and achieve even greater things.
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Be stubborn and persist, and trust yourself on what you love. You have to trust what you love.
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We are squandering our wealth. In many respects, to the extent that we persist in our imperial delusions, we're also going to squander our freedom...
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The world will persist in exhibiting before you what you persist in affirming the world is.
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Towards the end of your life you have something like a pain schedule to fill out - a long schedule like a federal document, only it's your pain schedule. Endless categories. First, physical causes - like arthritis, gallstones, menstrual cramps. New category, injured vanity, betrayal, swindle, injustice. But the hardest items of all have to do with love. The question then is: So why does everybody persist? If love cuts them up so much.
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No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
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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.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.
