Persistence Quotes - Page 26

• There is a groan that unites men and women, rich and poor, in any nation. These muscle pains are "explained" in every culture, but the universal fact of this persistence must mean that no adequate therapy exists.

  Patrick David Wall

  Pain, Mean, Men

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• Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place.

  Richard Bach

  Determination, Acceptance, Remember Where You Came

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.44, Delta

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• If you never budge, don't expect a push.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Teaching, Design, Risk

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• At every crossway on the path that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. Let us have no fear that the fair towers of former days be sufficiently defended. The least that the most timid among us can do is not to add to the immense dead weight that nature drags along.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Past, Men, Add

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• Successful trout fishing isn't a matter of brute force or even persistence, but something more like infiltration.

  John Gierach

  Successful, Lakes, Sea

  John Gierach (2010). “Even Brook Trout Get The Blues”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• We are born in this world to lose as well as to gain, to have happiness as well as misery. Enrich your mind by understanding this and improve, gaining stability thereby.

  Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

  Understanding, Mind, World

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• Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Perseverance, Brutes, Patience And Perseverance

  Jean de La Fontaine, James Michie (1979). “La Fontaine: Selected”, Viking Adult

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• The drive to be useful is encoded in our genes. But when we gather in very large numbers, as in the modern nation-state, we seem capable of levels of folly and self-destruction to be found nowhere else in all of nature. But if we keep at it and keep alive, we are in for one surprise after another. We can build structures for human society never seen before, thoughts never heard before, music never heard before.

  Lewis Thomas

  Self, Numbers, Alive

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• Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Success, Money, Congratulations

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• We've got to have all those tools. The Patriot Act tearing down those walls between intel and law enforcement are a necessary part of protecting the country. But, in the long term, the only way to defeat this terrorist bunch is through the spread of liberty and freedom. And that's a big challenge. I understand it's a challenge. It requires commitment and patience and persistence.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Wall, Commitment

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• In a sense these are questions that most people ask themselves to some extent. They become philosophical when asked with a persistence and rigour that pushes past conventional or evasive answers. It's nothing to do with acquiring a technical facility in an academic discipline.

  George Pattison

  Philosophical, Past, Discipline

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Games, Play

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• You need to recognize and sweep aside certain weaknesses which stand between you and your goals. Your persistence develops into a respected, proved, progressive power.

  Napoleon Hill

  Goal, Weakness, Needs

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• Straight white males: that's the predominant moviegoing category, and the persistence of that is a dismaying maintenance of the status quo.

  Wesley Morris

  White, Males, Maintenance

  "Wesley Morris, boston globe film critic: 'they hate people who have opinions that run contrary to their fanaticism'". Interview with Naoki O'Bryan, jameson-zimmer.squarespace.com. April 15, 2013.

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• Persistence is the mother of personal change

  Robin Sharma

  Motivational, Mother, Personal Change

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• I think a mantra I always told myself is, "No matter how many times somebody pitches the ball at you, if you swing every time, eventually one of them is going to connect." Being yourself and persistence are two things that became my daily mantras, I suppose.

  Jamie Bell

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Swings

  Interview with Robert Pattinson, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 20, 2015.

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• What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck.

  Peter Diamandis

  Giving Up, Luck, Grit

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• Persistence and determination are incredibly important. But sometimes you need to analyze the situation and understand when you're wrong. You need to be able to cop to being wrong, learn to change, and continue to grow as a human being.

  Sasha Grey

  Determination, Important, Needs

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• I think writers always want to be taken seriously as writers, but it's not always possible. There's a difference between persistence and banging your head against the same wall a hundred times. Sometimes it's better to look away from the wall and see what else might be available that's easier.

  Chris Kraus

  Wall, Taken, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The processes of secularization that followed in the wake of the Reformation continue to work themselves out in complicated ways, not only in Europe but also in North America. To make a very long and complex story short, the success of the Reformation combined with the persistence and renewal of Roman Catholicism in the 16th and 17th centuries made Christianity into an enduring, disruptive problem in new ways, layered on top of problems that already affected late medieval Christianity.

  Brad Stephan Gregory

  Long, Problem, Complicated

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Replace perfectionism with persistence. After all, in recovery and life, it's persistence that really pays off. Forget about perfection.

  Jenni Schaefer

  Recovery, Perfection, Pay

  Jenni Schaefer (2014). “Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too”, p.16, McGraw Hill Professional

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• But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Perseverance, Stay Strong, Ambition

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• It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Mind, Free Will

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• Time and persistence has shown me that I can succeed at sharing my art with others as a musician while running my own music business. And that kind of success is as good as I could have ever wished for.

  Bradley Joseph

  Running, Art, Succeed

  "New Faces of Jazz: Bradley Joseph" by Ned Radinsky and Cicily Janus,

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• Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.

  Walter Murch

  Art, Simple, Dedication

  Interview with Michael Wohl, www.peachpit.com. November 1, 2001.

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