Famous Quotes & Sayings

Reid Hoffman

You gotta be both flexible and persistent.

Wesley Morris

Straight white males: that's the predominant moviegoing category, and the persistence of that is a dismaying maintenance of the status quo.

Wangari Maathai

What people see as fearlessness is really persistence. Because I am focused on the solution, I don't see the danger.

Yukio Mishima

For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy persistence. I felt as though Sonoko were an abyss above which I stood poised.

Walter Kirn

At the beginning of a novel, a writer needs confidence, but after that what's required is persistence. These traits sound similar. They aren't. Confidence is what politicians, seducers and currency speculators have, but persistence is a quality found in termites. It's the blind drive to keep on working that persists after confidence breaks down.

Henry Ford

Whatever you resist will persist.

James Joyce

[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity.

Napoleon Hill

You need to recognize and sweep aside certain weaknesses which stand between you and your goals. Your persistence develops into a respected, proved, progressive power.

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.

Austin Phelps

Vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement - these are the martial virtues which must command success

John D. Voelker

Most fisherman, including this one, cling to their pet stupidities as they would to a battered briar or an old jacket; and their dogged persistence in wrong methods and general wrong-headedness finally wins the a sort of grudging admiration, if not many fish.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The secret of success is conviction and persistence.

Mahatma Gandhi

Full effort is full victory.

Mahatma Gandhi

The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.

Jim Lovell

I never thought I didn't have a card to play.

Bruce Lee

Persistence, persistence, and persistence. The Power can be created and maintained through daily practice - continuous effort.

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.

Dermot Mulroney

I wish I could say I had some sort of master plan where one role leads to the next role, but a lot of it really is persistence and luck and being prepared when you are asked to jump on a project. There isn't any one rule that I follow. Obviously, I'll always shoot to work with the best actors, directors and filmmakers. I've been incredibly lucky to be able to do that.

Debi Thomas

You can accomplish anything with pure persistence and drive.

William Shakespeare

That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.

Tony Robbins

Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life.

Sonia Johnson

What we resist persists.

Michelle Malkin

As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama's snowblowers in the media. See no scandal, hear no scandal, speak no scandal.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I give you points for persistence, but you lose a few for being slow on the uptake. (Rae)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Success is when persistence meets preparation.

Ted Turner

If you never quit, you're never beaten.

Marcus Buckingham

Spend the most time with your best people. ... Talent is the multiplier. THe more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time. ... Persistence directed primarily toward your non-talents is self-destructive. ... You will reprimand yourself, berate yourself, and put yourself through all manner of contortions in an attempt to achieve the impossible.

Nora Ephron

I have for many years been puzzled by the persistence of Hugh Hefner. Why is he still here?

Mary Kay Ash

You can eat an elephant one bit at a time.

Michael Chabon

With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on.

Ma Jian

In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.

Gary Zukav

If you are doing all you can to the fullest of your ability as well as you can, there is nothing else that is asked of a soul.