Quotes on Persist

Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder to change.

But maybe the Charm Bracelets understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the world placed in books, and so didn't waste their time with them. Whereas I, even now, persist in believing that these black marks on white paper bear the greatest significance, that if I keep writing, I might be able to catch the rainbow of consciousness in a jar.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

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.

Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.