Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Keep your mind on your objective, and persist until you succeed. Study, think and plan.
W. Clement Stone
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
Lord Chesterfield
Books are hindrances to persisting stupidity.
Spanish Proverb
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Tobias Wolff
What this seems to tell us is, whatever the conditions were that allowed for a good recruitment index last year are persisting this year.
Lynn Fegley
[t]hose...who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin, are not to be admitted to Holy Communion.
Cardinal Ratzinger
The political engagement on our campus is wonderful, ... This issue needs to go to the Legislature. Our students need to persist in their message that the system needs adequate funding.
Karen Haynes
We expect these difficult industry conditions to persist well into the current year, as the industry works through its excess inventory.
Paul Fireman
It's worrisome if it were to persist, but we have every reason to believe that productivity is going to bounce back in the first quarter.
Christopher Rupkey
This matter is not closed. I will persist until Sinn Fein staff, those who have become instrumental in the movement towards peace and the implementation of the Good Friday Accords, are removed as well.
Brian Higgins
These figures are high, they're concerning - we now need to know if they're still persisting.
Dr. Lorna Thorpe
If we persist in that kind of a system of law virtually every business in America, big and small, is going to have to be run from Sing Sing, Leavenworth or Alcatraz.
Benjamin F. Fairless
That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nevertheless, many business firms indicated to the District Banks that they expect high prices for energy and construction materials to persist.
Philadelphia Fed
The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.
Vannevar Bush
Those who persist in accusing the school of criminal and evil conduct are turning their backs on the facts.
Sanford Bishop
I don't think he's an a-, ... But if he's going to persist in making bad movies, he's going to have to grow accustomed to reading bad reviews.
Roger Ebert
If fuel prices persist at current levels then the potential exists for the current year's performance to be around 40% below 2005.
John Palmer
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Our victory is as pure as a diamond, ... Kostunica is the elected president and we must persist in our resistance.
Velimir Ilic
That cooling penetrated into deeper layers of the ocean, where it remained for decades after the event. We found that volcanic effects on sea level can persist for many decades.
Peter Gleckler
I would be concerned that we might be getting ahead of ourselves in thinking this M&A activity is going to persist. If the economic conditions are not right, then it won't.
Royal Bank
Our rally will persist until the prime minister quits.
Chamlong Srimuang
If they persist with it, they will be dealt with according to law.
Laisenia Qarase
The problem we have in Kenya - which is not a new problem - is that of impunity. People are rarely held accountable for their actions, enabling grand corruption to persist.
Maina Kiai
This has never happened before ... and we believe this relationship is unlikely to persist.
William Bird
If you want your town to be pedestrian-friendly, you need to persist in your efforts over time. You can't just do one thing, either. You need a multiple strategy.
Phil Smith
They'll take a reduction in order to persist.
Joseph Lukasiewicz
These innuendos and falsehoods cannot persist.
Bob Del Greco
Habits… the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction… You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.
Juliene Berk
But, on the downside, there are gaps that persist.
Hugh Price
As long as rates stay so low in Japan the outflows by Japanese investors will persist. I think we'll see the dollar head back to 120 yen early next year.
Nobuaki Kubo
Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.
Isaiah Berlin
People are asking if this the end of the drought, but what we are saying is its effects are going to persist for a long time.
Peter Ambenje
I expect the high inflation environment to persist in the coming months due to effects of drought. In broad terms, Kenyans should expect to dig deeper into their pockets.
Evans Osano
I accept it democratically and will act accordingly, ... I will persist in my career as a politician but from outside parliament, of course.
Emile Lahoud
If prices persist above the level of 60 we will definitively take that into account.
Edmond Daukoru
China is trying to build a 'socialist market economy,' so we would persist in building an economic system in which public ownership is the mainstay.
Zeng Peiyan
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