Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

Bryant H. McGill

Persistence is the most traveled path to success.

Catherine Ponder

Often, failure is success trying to be born in a bigger way, and persistence helps you to experience that greater result.

Catherine Ponder

Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders.

Earl Nightingale

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

Albert Einstein

Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.

Adolf Hitler

But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success.

Cornel West

And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of poverty generates levels of despair that deepen social conflict the escalation of paranoia produces levels of distrust that reinforce cultural division. Rae is the most explosive issue in American life precisely because it forces us to confront the tragic facts of poverty and paranoia despair, and distrust. In short, a candid examination of race matters takes us to the core of the crisis of American democracy (p. 107).

Ram Dass

Along with faith comes the requirement for dogged persistence. At first meditation may bring you mild highs or some relief from suffering. But there may come a time - just as there does in the development of any skill - when there will be a plateau. You may be bored, discouraged, or even negative and cynical. This is when you will need not only faith, but persistence.

Rachel Gibson

'Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not have to read them in order.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.

Bertrand Russell

Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle , but he thought very highly of Democritus , Although he did not deny that the course of nature exemplifies a Divine purpose, he objected to any admixture of teleological explanation in the actual investigation of phenomena; everything, he held, should be explained as following necessarily from efficient causes .

Michelle Birdsong

That's the whole purpose of putting them on the line. Those have to be our rebounds.

Ian Bell

I was purposely trying to slow him down, to play at my pace, with me in my little bubble.

Mario Hernandez

It has served its purpose, and it's time to replace that.

Mark Dutro

I did that on purpose. We were down by two, and I didn't want to see Montrose win here on our track.

Richard Boucher

The purpose of these talks is to get started,

Tim Wulfemeyer

The purpose of new technology is to democratize the system a little bit.

Friedrich Schiller

Stubbornness is not firmness.

Lauren Conrad

A lot of my branding has come from stubbornness - I knew what I liked. I knew what I wanted to do.