Persist Quotes - Page 8

• So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Evil, Selfishness, Weakness

  Dr. Laura Schlessinger (2011). “Surviving a Shark Attack (On Land): Overcoming Betrayal and Dealing with Revenge”, p.11, Harper Collins

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• But I feel this, Helen: I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly. It is as natural as that I should love those who show me affection, or submit to punishment when I feel it is deserved.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Punishment, Affection, Natural

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Good can still exist when bad things happen, just as evil persists when good things happen.” - Carter to Georgina

  Richelle Mead

  Evil, Good Things, When Bad Things Happen

  4 Copy quote

• Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder to change.

  Milan Kundera

  Years, Knowing, Decision

  7 Copy quote

• The six rules of maybe 1. respect the power of hope and possibilites. Begin with beleif. Hold onto it. 2. If you known where you want to go, you're already half way there. Know what you desire but, more imporantly, why you desire it. Then go. 3. hopes and dreams and heart's desires require a clear path-get out of your own way 4. Place hope carefully in your own hands and in the hands of others 5. Persist, if necessary 6. That said, most importantly-know when you've reached an end, Quit, give up, do it with courage. Giving up is not failing-it's the chance to begin again.

  Deb Caletti

  Dream, Giving Up, Heart

  4 Copy quote

• Durnik needs a tower somewhere in the Vale," Belgarath was saying. "I don't see why, father," Polgara replied. "All of Aldur's disciples have towers, Pol. It's the custom." "Old customs persist --even when there's no longer any need for them." "He's going to need to study, Pol. How can he possibly study with you underfoot all the time?" She gave him a long, chilly stare. "Maybe I should rephrase that.

  David Eddings

  Father, Long, Towers

  David Eddings (2010). “Seeress Of Kell: (Malloreon 5)”, p.23, Random House

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Why do you persist in being so frivolous, Urgit?" "Why don't we just call it a symptom of my incipient madness?" "You're not going to go mad," she said firmly. "Of course I'm going to go mad, mother. I'm rather looking forward to it.

  David Eddings

  Mother, Mad, Looking Forward

  David Eddings (2010). “King Of The Murgos: (Malloreon 2)”, p.246, Random House

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• You persist in this romantic vision of what it is to be a vampire, but despite my best efforts to curb it I have a taste for blood.

  Deborah Harkness

  Blood, Best Effort, Vision

  Deborah Harkness (2011). “A Discovery of Witches: A Novel”, p.240, Penguin

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky.

  Thomas Hardy

  Sky, Flux, Rhythm

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: Works of Hardy”, p.328, 谷月社

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Forgiveness is healing—everything is energy—thoughts create—we are all connected—what you resist persists—true love never dies—the soul’s immortality is the only true immortality—

  Alyson Noel

  Healing, Soul, Energy

  4 Copy quote

• If you still persist in writing, "Good food at it's best", you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.

  Lynne Truss

  Writing, Lightning, Good Food

  48 Copy quote

• 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.

  Seth Godin

  Journey, Talking, People

  Seth Godin (2011). “Tribes: We need you to lead us”, p.82, Hachette UK

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• What is the world full of? It is full of things that arise, persist, and cease. Grasp and cling to them, and they produce suffering. Don't grasp and cling to them, and they do not produce suffering.

  Buddhadasa

  Inspirational, Suffering, World

  57 Copy quote

• Challenges aren't frightening, defeats aren't terrifying either. A principle that I now insist and persist on is the understanding that you can fulfill your dreams when you work hard and don't give up.

  Seungri

  Dream, Giving Up, Hard Work

  58 Copy quote

• In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples.

  Kofi Annan

  Our World, Eras, Poverty

  18 Copy quote

• The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life.

  Sigmund Freud

  Life, Long, Expectations

  Sigmund Freud (1965). “New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we hate to change our minds.

  William James

  Hate, Mind, Might

  William James (1918). “The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 2”, p.530, Courier Corporation

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Stupidity, Surprise

  13 Copy quote

• It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere and keep on working until the work is done... I bet there isn't a single highly successful person who has not depended on grit. Nobody is talented enough to not have to work hard, and that's what grit allows you to do.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Success, Hard Work, Writing

  12 Copy quote

• Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but the standards are unalterable- disinterested love of truth, fidelity to facts, accuracy in measurement, exactness of verification-so, in life as a whole, the towering ethical criteria remain unshaken. Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Loyalty, Truth, Honesty

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1952). “A faith for tough times”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Persist - don't take no for an answer. If you're happy to sit at your desk and not take any risk, you'll be sitting at your desk for the next 20 years.

  David Rubenstein

  Money, Years, Risk

  52 Copy quote

• Your persistence is, in fact, the true measure of your belief in yourself and your ability to succeed. Each time that you persist in the face of adversity and disappointment, you build the habit of persistence.

  Brian Tracy

  Perseverance, Disappointment, Adversity

  Brian Tracy (2009). “Flight Plan: The Real Secret of Success”, p.136, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Relationship, Pain

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• The deep inequalities that persist are visible reminders of the effects of apartheid and colonialism. Until these scars are healed, the vision of our Constitution will not have been achieved.

  Kate O'Regan

  Vision, Colonialism, Poverty

  8 Copy quote

• We add that it would be all too easy to object that mutations have no evolutionary effect because they are eliminated by natural selection. Lethal mutations (the worst kind) are effectively eliminated, but others persist as alleles. ...Mutants are present within every population, from bacteria to man. There can be no doubt about it. But for the evolutionist, the essential lies elsewhere: in the fact that mutations do not coincide with evolution.

  Pierre-Paul Grasse

  Lying, Men, Doubt

  10 Copy quote