Top 95 Persistent Quotes

Our adversaries are trying to undermine our country on a persistent and regular basis, whether it’s election season or not.

My best advice to young women looking to get into both travel and tech is to put yourself out there, get out of your comfort zone, and be persistent.

Vietnam ended a failure: repeatedly, to me, Kissinger described it as his greatest, and most persistent regret. But Congress was more to blame than Kissinger.

It is a huge asset to law and order that serious or persistent criminals should be taken out of the society on which they prey. It makes life safer for the law-abiding and on the whole prisons are pretty good at containing those who have been committed to them.

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.

The persistent belief that we are living through an epidemic of racially biased police shootings is a creation of selective reporting.

As technology advances, so too does terrorists’ use of technology to communicate – both to inspire and recruit. The widespread use of technology propagates the persistent terrorist message to attack U.S. interests, whether in the homeland or abroad.

I’ve given a lot of talks over the years on the subject of entrepreneurship. The first thing I find I have to do is to dispel the persistent myth that entrepreneurial success is all about innovative thinking and breakthrough ideas.

Prose is something that is persistent in staying in one place long enough to not only zero in on the dramatic effect of something that might have happened, or something that might have been seen, but also in watching how it played out and thinking about the cause and the effect.

When you have been persistent for as long as I have been, you have to exercise a certain amount of caution, but I want to do everything.

I don’t think of depression as contagious. Other depressed people challenge the idea – which can be very persistent and irritating – that there is something odd about you: that you are unique with regard to this wretched state.

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

Actually, I would love to make a music video. Maybe it would finally put to rest those persistent rumours that have followed me throughout my career – particularly when I was on camera performing – that I had died.

One of the signs of a bad coworker is a pattern of persistent undermining – intentionally hindering a colleague’s success, reputation, or relationships.

I’m persistent.

The most difficult thing about my job is that I do a lot of 19-hour days. It’s really difficult to have a life, never mind a relationship. I don’t have any regrets, really. I’m quite content. I’m very stubborn and persistent. I just keep working.

There’s sort of a persistent misperception that talking about race is black folk’s burden. Ultimately, only men can end sexism, and only white people can end racism.

I’m an extremely, extremely persistent person. Extremely. And when I believe I am right, and it is important, I will go to the end of the earth.

We on our part will stick to our independent foreign policy of peace, acting forever as a strong defender of world peace and a persistent proponent of common development.

We have to get past this persistent negativity. The negativity has held Rhode Island back for a long time.

I want attractive stocks that will benefit from persistent institutional buying pressure.

I decided a long time ago that I didn’t have to be talented. I just had to be persistent.

You always have to try new things, and that’s the one thing that we’ve learned from all the greats – every album isn’t gonna be every fan’s favorite, but as long as you keep switching it up and making new fans, it’s really about being persistent.

The best advice I ever got – and it’s the best advice I’d give anybody – is just don’t believe the word ‘no.’ Be persistent. Persevere. Keep going. Never, ever, ever give up.

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.

The results of anything are equal to how persistent you are with it, so if you’re persistent and dedicate yourself to working out, you’ll get bigger results.

You have to be persistent.

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.

I was a competitive swimmer as a teenager, only stopping when I got persistent ear infections. Every day was a 6 A.M. start to swim before lessons, then choir or dance classes after.

Clearly, there are persistent differences in our country.

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

You could tell three things about Bill Gates pretty quickly. He was really smart. He was really competitive; he wanted to show you how smart he was. And he was really, really persistent.

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

A lot of the guys worry about their form. For me, it is just about being persistent and patient.

That’s how I would describe myself, persistent.

Bowling in sub-continental conditions is not easy for a fast bowler. You have to be consistent and persistent to succeed, especially when you are bowling to the likes of Sangakkara, Mahela, Samaraweera, and Dilshan.

Viewers don’t like rudeness, but they like us to be persistent.

That’s part of the character of Shanghainese people. They’re good negotiators, they’re very persistent, and you grow up in an atmosphere like that – very competitive. That becomes part of your personality: Shanghai personality becomes part of yours. Just like New Yorkers – they’re often like that.

One of the most persistent misconceptions about blindness is that it is a curse from God for misdeeds perpetrated in a past life, which cloaks the blind person in spiritual darkness and makes him not just dangerous, but evil.

I can’t stand quitters. My mother is a very strong, determined woman. I was peeling onions when I was seven, but I walked off when my eyes began to sting. She said to me, ‘You start something and you finish it’, and that stuck with me. I’m persistent.

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

I’m very, very persistent… I mean, fine, I’m pushy.

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.

Technological defeatism – a belief that, since a given technology is here to stay, there’s nothing we can do about it other than get on with it and simply adjust our norms – is a persistent feature of social thought about technology. We’ll come to pay for it very dearly.

I want to make clear that my feedback comes from a place of loyalty and persistent gratitude. I love Twitter.

I do believe in ghosts, or at least in some kind of persistent spiritual echoes of the past in certain places.

If you are hardworking, talented, reasonably charming or good looking and determined, you have a chance to make it. There are pros and cons on both sides. In the end, the hard working and persistent ones are the ones that get ‘lucky’ – whether in or out of film families.

The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.

Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success – because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that’s disguised as failure.

I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls ‘Action,’ you don’t go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.

I had a persistent mindset that I was going to make something happen for myself.

My mom taught me to live by the three p’s: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.

Three-card monte is one of the most persistent and effective cons in history. The games still pop up along city streets. But we tend to dismiss the victims as rubes.

If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more patient and more persistent.

A short telomere represents a persistent and non-repairable damage to the cells, which is able to prevent their division or regeneration.

In boxing, some fighters have good chins. You just have to be persistent and continue following the plan and trying to catch them nicely and, obviously, hope to be knocking him out.

You meet folks who are funny and really smart and persistent and loving that are confronting this thing we call poverty, which is just a shorthand for this way of life that holds you underwater. And you just wonder what our country would be if we allowed these people to flourish and reach their full potential.