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.
Author: Juliene Berk
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time…
Author: Charles Dickens
The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.
Author: Albert Einstein
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Author: Albert Einstein
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Author: Albert Einstein
Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.
Author: Deciderius Erasmus
Energy and persistence conquer all thing.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
Author: Napolean Hill
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in determination.
Author: Tommy Lasorda
One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy.
Author: Frank Shutts
Not only as each new year dawns, but constantly, persistently, the God of all grace urges His blood-bought children to give themselves to Him in complete surrender and so to prove to themselves how much more blessed it is to yield to His will than to indulge in their own.
Author: Cornelius Stam
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling.
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.
Author: Carl Lotus Becker
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Author: Franklin Roosevelt
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
Author: Hannah Whithall Smith
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
Author: Hoshang N. Akhtar
The pride of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Author: Vince Lombardi
Where the determination is, the way can be found.
Author: George S. Clason
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Author: Robert Anson Heinlein
The most essential factor is persistence – the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.
Author: James Whitcomb Riley
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Author: Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
Author: Woodrow Wilson
A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.
Author: Otto Bauer