Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

Bryant H. McGill

Persistence is the most traveled path to success.

Catherine Ponder

Often, failure is success trying to be born in a bigger way, and persistence helps you to experience that greater result.

Catherine Ponder

Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders.

Earl Nightingale

By being persistent, you're demonstrating faith. Persistence is simply another word for faith. If you didn't have faith, you'd never persist.

Albert Einstein

Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.

Adolf Hitler

But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success.

Cornel West

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).

Ram Dass

Along with faith comes the requirement for dogged persistence. At first meditation may bring you mild highs or some relief from suffering. But there may come a time - just as there does in the development of any skill - when there will be a plateau. You may be bored, discouraged, or even negative and cynical. This is when you will need not only faith, but persistence.

Prem Rawal

Surrender to what is ultimate. Surrender to what you really are!

E. Stanley Jones

I have surrendered to God; therefore I surrender to nothing else.

David Platt

Surely the gospel evokes unconditional surrender of all that we are and all that we have to all that He is.

Christopher Paolini

What is the worth of anything we do? The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life

Bill Johnson

Faith is not the result of striving. It is the result of surrender.

Carlos Santana

Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears...wi th one chord

Cheri Huber

All you must do is accecpt all that is unaccecptable to you.

Ivo Andric

What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be.

Harold Williams

If he doesn't defend, do we surrender to the government?

Confucius

If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn?

Gregory Bateson

In no system which shows mental characteristics can any part have unilateral control over the whole. In other words, the mental characteristics of the system are imminent, not in some part, but in the system as a whole.

Isaac Asimov

It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.

Mark Twain

There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

John Maynard Keynes

The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.

Samuel Johnson

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.

William Hazlitt

The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.