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What you resist, persists.
- Carl Jung
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
In the councils of government,
we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,
whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power
exists and will persist.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,
whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
The potential for the disastrous rise
of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination
endanger our liberties or democratic processes.
We should take nothing for granted.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower in his Farewell Address of January, 17 1961
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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.
- Peace Pilgrim
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein
The distinction between the past, present and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein
Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
He who is persistent will realize God.
So try your best to make meditation
a regular experience in your life.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix
The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda
If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?
- Henry David Thoreau
Never give up on the most important goals in your life.
Never give up on your life purpose.
Never give up on your core values.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The probability that we may fail
in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- Abraham Lincoln
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
- Virgil
When the water starts boiling
it is foolish to turn off the heat.
- Nelson Mandela
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams
Keep moving. Don't stop. But don't rush.
Don't race around.
Sure and steady gets you there every time.
- Neale Donald Walsch
You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach
When you find your path, you must not be afraid.
You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.
Disappointment, defeat, and despair are
the tools God uses to show us the way.
- Paulo Coelho
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
The key to everything is patience.
You get the chicken by hatching the egg,
not by smashing it open.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Ideas, yes.
Inspiration, yes.
Creativity, yes.
Planning, yes.
Perseverance, yes.
More perseverance, yes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The price of success is hard work,
dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi
I think and think for months and years.
Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false.
The hundredth time I am right.
- Albert Einstein
Genius is one percent inspiration
and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Thomas Edison
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli
We can do anything we want to
if we stick to it long enough.
- Helen Keller
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
- Winston Churchill
Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools,
but the gentle touches of air and water
working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
- Eddie Cantor
Patience, persistence and perspiration
make an unbeatable combination for success.
- Napoleon Hill
Persistence prevails when all else fails.
- Anonymous
The majority of men meet with failure
because of their lack of persistence
in creating new plans to take
the place of those which fail.
- Napoleon Hill
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
A little more persistence,
a little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure
may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard
When you get into a tight place
and everything goes against you,
till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer,
never give up then, for that is just
the place and time the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
- Herbert Kaufman
You can have anything you want -
if you want it badly enough.
You can be anything you want to be,
do anything you set out to accomplish
if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
- Abraham Lincoln
Balance activity with serenity,
wealth with simplicity,
persistence with innovation,
community with solitude,
familiarity with adventure,
constancy with change,
leading with following.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl
could want in her life, except for good taste in men.
- Anonymous
No matter how much cats fight,
there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
- Abraham Lincoln
It appears to be a law that you cannot have
a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
- Henry David Thoreau
Flowers are Nature's messengers -
reminders of an unspeakable beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is sanctuary in being alone with nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God has cared for these trees,
saved them from drought, disease, avalanches,
and a thousand tempests and floods.
But he cannot save them from fools.
- John Muir
There is more of good nature than of good sense
at the bottom of most marriages.
- Henry David Thoreau
Man's nature is not essentially evil.
Brute nature has been known to
yield to the influence of love.
You must never despair of human nature.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet
and steady and loyal and enduring a nature
that it will last through a whole lifetime,
if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain
Trees are the earth's endless effort
to speak to the listening heaven.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Pay attention to rainbows, and snowflakes,
butterflies and the songs of birds,
the crash of storm-driven waves
and the mirror-surface of a quiet pond.
Let the depths of nature become a part of your innermost being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran
The fog unrolls itself to be a prayer rug to the mountains.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
- Walter Bagehot
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
- Woody Allen
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