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.

Aldo Leopold

We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.

Dar Williams

And I'll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but I really just have friends.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman… have faith. There is yet time.

Donna Brazile

When I look around me, I can't help having faith.

Dwight L. Moody

It is easier for me to have faith in the Bible than to have faith in D.L. Moody, for Moody has failed me lots of times.

Chubby Checker

God's got something for me. I have faith it'll be OK.

Anouk Aimee

What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive; I feel that anything can happen.

Alvin Dark

A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen.

Brooke Shields

Have faith in your own thoughts.

Dennis McBride

But the most persistent situation is the mold,

Doug Brien

Not too good. I've had this before, and it's persistent for quite a while. Now it's just kind of wait and see.

Jackie Jackson

One thing of the many things that I know about Jesse Jackson, he is persistent.

Ken Thompson

We have persistent objects, they're called files.

Reid Hoffman

You gotta be both flexible and persistent.