Persistence Quotes - Page 29

• Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.

  Teresa of Avila

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Fun

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• There's no such thing as a lost cause, or a dead end. Through persistence, attitude, and creativity, there's always an escape route.

  Urijah Faber

  Attitude, Creativity, Mma

  FaceBook post by Urijah Faber from Oct 08, 2013

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• I started to get so many letters from unlikely people; a single mum going, "I watch your show, I'm not into survival, but I hold down four jobs and I get it when you say it's about persistence and putting a positive attitude into things during difficult times." That for me was a great liberator to realize that the show isn't about me running around, jumping off stuff and flexing muscles, it's about inspiring people. That makes me really happy.

  Bear Grylls

  Running, Jobs, Attitude

  "​I Went Camping With Bear Grylls, And Survived". Interview with Wes Siler, gizmodo.com. November 20, 2014.

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• Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hurt

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• Painted time is a different zone. This is why I don't believe that a painting - although I've been accused of it many times now - can be truly topical. A painting's physicality gives it a different persistence and a different perception.

  Luc Tuymans

  Believe, Giving, Perception

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• Persistence and love of one's work is the key.

  Paul Russo

  Keys, And Love, Persistence And Love

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• There's a better way to speak out against President Putin and call out his bigotry for exactly what it is: speaking up for equal rights and educating people around the world about the persistence of homophobia. Rather than boycott, I, along with several amazing organizations including Athlete Ally and All Out, plan to use the Sochi Games as a teachable moment for the world.

  Greg Louganis

  Athlete, Gay, Rights

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• I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says 'No', then you have to knock on the next door.

  Magic Johnson

  Sports, Perseverance, Thinking

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• The only things you learn are the things you tame

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Determination

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• If man did not exist as a world-spanning receptive realm of perception, if he were not engaged in this capacity, nothing at all could exist. 'Being,' in its traditional usage, means 'presence' and 'persistence.' To achieve presence, and thereby being, an entity requires some sort of open realm in which presence and persistence can take place. Thus an open realm of perception like that of human existence is the one being that makes being possible.

  Medard Boss

  Mean, Men, Perception

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• 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).

  Cornel West

  Reality, Two, Issues

  Cornel West (2017). “Race Matters: With a New Introduction”, p.107, Beacon Press

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• The finest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindness that pass between humans, I marvel at the growth of conscience, at the persistence of reason in the face of all superstition or despair. I marvel at human endurance.

  Anne Rice

  Kindness, Moon, Miracle

  Anne Rice (1999). “Pandora”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

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• Illegitimis non carborundum.
  Lat., Don't let the bastards grind you down.

  Joseph Stilwell

  Latin, Grind, Porridge

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• Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.

  Steve Martin

  Encouraging, Uplifting, Comedy

  FaceBook post by Steve Martin from Nov 15, 2011

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• ... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go as far as the giving even of one's life, provided it does not take long but is soon over, as on stage, and eveyone is looking on and praising. Whereas active love is labor and persistence, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Dream, Long

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• First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.

  Octavia Butler

  Inspiration, Writing, Practice

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Bloodchild: And Other Stories”, p.128, Open Road Media

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• Tzu Chang asked Confucius about jen. Confucius said, "If you can practice these five things with all the people, you can be called jen." Tzu Chang asked what they were. Confucius said, "Courtesy, generosity, honesty, persistence, and kindness. If you are courteous, you will not be disrespected; if you are generous, you will gain everything. If you are honest, people will rely on you. If you are persistent you will get results. If you are kind, you can employ people.

  Confucius

  Kindness, Honesty, Practice

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• My mum used to say to me, 'Spit on yer 'ands and take a fresh 'old.' Keep going even if you have setbacks.

  Lesley Garrett

  Used, Spit, Mum

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• The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.

  Napoleon Hill

  Giving Up, Character, Men

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Napoleon Hill Collection”, p.113, Penguin

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• I've been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can't really say where the desire came from; I've always had it. My breakthrough with the first book came through persistence, because a lot of publishers turned it down!

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Writing, Desire

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• TV, and the culture it anchors, masks and drowns out the subtle and vital information contact with the real world once provided. There are lessons, enormous lessons, lessons that may be crucial to the planet's persistence as a green and diverse place and also to the happiness of it's inhabitants-that nature teaches and TV can't.

  Bill McKibben

  Real, Anchors, Culture

  Bill McKibben (2014). “The Age of Missing Information”, p.26, Random House

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  Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

  John Adams

  Leadership, Character, Power

  "I’ll Vote for That" by Katharine Rose, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2015.

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• If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll.

  Karrie Webb

  Sports, Perseverance, Long

  "Karrie Webb Spins Cycle of Success". The Insurance Journal Interview, amp.insurancejournal.com. August 9, 2004.

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• If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. Right here is the point at which the majority of men meet with failure, because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

  Napoleon Hill

  Men, Creating, Majority

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Napoleon Hill Collection”, p.80, Penguin

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• Persistence only proves persistence-it does not prove love. The fact that a romantic pursuer is relentless doesn't mean you are special-it means he is troubled.

  Gavin de Becker

  Mean, Special, Doe

  Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company

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