Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.
Persistence is the most traveled path to success.
To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence.
Often, failure is success trying to be born in a bigger way, and persistence helps you to experience that greater result.
Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders.
Through persistence, you can be one of those happy, victorious people who not only chases dreams, but who catches them! The persistent man also perseveres long enough for his dreams to catch up with him!
This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.
Mr. Jackson continues to be in stable condition and remains under observation at this time, ... He continues to need care for some persistent viral symptoms but, otherwise, he's in good spirits.
We're in a persistent pattern that doesn't allow the ridge of high pressure that normally builds up after each storm to build in and dry us out. The storms have just been coming back-to-back for just about the whole month.
To persist in doing wrong extenuates not the wrong, but makes it much more heavy.