Persistent Quotes - Page 17

• I'm hard-nosed about luck...If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune.

  Jerry Della Femina

  Luck, Trying, Fortune

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• Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it.

  Mark Twain

  Perfect, Dimensions, Speak

  Mark Twain (2010). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.120, Univ of California Press

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• Never give up! People don't understand how persistent you have to be. You come up against an obstacle and you have to find a way of moving forward. You take detours, navigate between the obstacles and make it happen. Unless you are very strong and convinced you can succeed, you will be swept away.

  Frank Lowy

  Strong, Giving Up, Moving

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• You must bring every particle of your energy, unanswerable resolution, your best efforts, your persistent industry to your task or the best will not come out of you. You must back up your ambition by your whole nature, by unbounded enthusiasm and a determination to win which knows no failure.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Determination, Ambition, Winning

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• And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers-perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Time, Giving Up

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• Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers.

  Truman Capote

  Cities, Unexpected Gifts, Tree

  Truman Capote (2012). “Music For Chameleons”, p.205, Vintage

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• The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

  John F. Kennedy

  Lying, Enemy, Comfort

  Yale University Commencement Address, delivered 11 June 1962

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