Persistent Quotes

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life, Others, Question

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein

Reality, Illusion, Merely

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein

Future, Past, Between

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
John F. Kennedy

Great, Truth, Enemy

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
Orison Swett Marden

Success, Best, Failure

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
Henry Ward Beecher

Human, Soul, Hatred

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
Honore de Balzac

Life, Great, Thought

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.
Peace Pilgrim

Life, Peace, Create

The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back.
Paul Ryan

Government, Matter, Off

And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.
Tom Vilsack

America, Sometimes, Poverty

I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family.
Sanford I. Weill

Work, Family, Hard

I think it's imperative to follow your heart and choose a profession you're passionate about, and if you haven't found that 'spark' yet, if you're not sure what you want to do with your lives - be persistent until you do.
Steve Kerr

Heart, Until, Lives

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
Ralph Fiennes

Good, Great, Patience

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.
John H. Johnson

Creative, Succeed

I'm persistent.
Josh Hutcherson

I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.
Naguib Mahfouz

Political, Suffering, Sense

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Anthony Burgess

Country, Try, Sense

An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.
Kevin Kelly

Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.
George Gissing

Event, Familiar, Prophecy

The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing.
Frank Shorter

Work, Hard, Training

Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.
Bobby Scott

Law, Matter, State

Through persistent dedication, Susan B. Anthony, and other remarkable leaders, women were finally granted the right to vote in 1920.
Louise Slaughter

Women, Through, Vote

At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.
Adam Schiff

State, Top, Texas

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
Arthur Koestler

History, War, Through

Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.
Kenneth Scott Latourette

Faith, Religion, History

One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them.
Albert Bushnell Hart

Political, National, Elements

I think that realistically we can shoot for the title this year. If we stay healthy and be persistent throughout the season, I think we have good chance to go all the way.
Jason Kidd

Good, Chance, Year

One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans' reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad news.
Frank Rich

Alone, Bad, Early

Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects.
Wilhelm Wundt

Science, Problem, Natural

Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.
John Drinkwater

Work, Poetry, Long

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