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perseverance persistence self
Persistence is self-discipline in action. Brian Tracy
perseverance attitude want-something
The four basic ingredients for success are: you must have the will to want something; you must have the right kind of attitude; you must have perseverance, and then you must have wisdom. Then you combine these four and then you get to where you want to get to. Aung San Suu Kyi
perseverance way firsts
As we say in the sewer, if you're not prepared to go all the way, don't put your boots on in the first place. Edward Norton
perseverance determination jobs
If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. Dale Carnegie
perseverance winning race
Plodding wins the race. Aesop
perseverance thinking incurable-disease
You can do anything you think you can. Christopher Reeve
perseverance morality formal
Morality, when formal, devours. Albert Camus
perseverance giving faithful
I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end of my life for my God. Saint Patrick
perseverance lust curiosity
Desire to know why, and how curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure. Thomas Hobbes
powerful years cds
I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash Brendan Fraser
powerful men animal
Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural basis of sentiment for utilitarian morality," but on the previous page he says, "if, as is my own belief, the moral feelings are not innate, but acquired, they are not for that reason less natural." It is with hesitation that I venture to differ from so profound a thinker, but it can hardly be disputed that the social feelings are instinctive or innate in the lower animals; and why should they not be so in man? Charles Darwin
powerful epic issues
Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States. Demian Bichir
powerful thinking political
You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord. Barbara Bush
powerful humility reality
It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that, the most powerful tool at his disposal, was the scientific method, which over time winnows out deception. It can't give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality. Ann Druyan
powerful two soul
But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so. Ann Brashares
powerful empathy groups
But all liberals only have empathy for the exact same victims - always the ones that are represented by powerful liberal interest groups. Ann Coulter
powerful law suffering
Liberals despise the rule of law because it interferes with their ability to rule by mob. They love to portray themselves as the weak taking on the powerful. But it is the least powerful who suffer the most once the rule of law is gone.
powerful coffee writing
I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since. Amy Waldman
disappointment want melancholy
Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love. Scott Turow
disappointment people election
If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined. Abraham Lincoln
disappointment heart waiting
Do not lose heart, even if you must wait a bit before finding the right thing. Be prepared for disappointment also, but do not abandon the quest. Albert Schweitzer
disappointment book passion
Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from becoming a burden to ourselves. They help us to forget the crossness of men and things, compose our cares and our passions, and lay our disappointments asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride or design in their conversation. Jeremy Collier
disappointment fall thinking
there is nothing sorer to the spirit than falling below what one's lover thinks of one. Naomi Mitchison
disappointment believe destiny
If you believe the disappointments - if you believe the disappointments in the last few years are a detour and not our destiny, then I'm asking for your vote. Mitt Romney
disappointment america promise
I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed. But his promises gave way to disappointment and division. This isn't something we have to accept. Now is the moment when we can do something. With your help we will do something.
disappointment refusal disappointment-in-friends
The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment. Publilius Syrus
disappointment giving shadow
Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train. Oscar Wilde