You may persevere in obscurity for ten years in your study, but the day you make a name for yourself, the whole world will acclaim... you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I will get things done for America.... Faced with apathy, I will take action. Faced with conflict, I will seek common ground.... F...aced with adversity, I will persevere. I will carry this commitment with me this year. I am an Americorps volunteer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Consciousness is cerebral celebrity--nothing more and nothing less. Those contents are conscious that persevere, that monopolize r...esources long enough to achieve certain typical and "symptomatic" effects--on memory, on the control of behavior and so forth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It seems certain, that though a man, in a flush of humour, after intense reflection on the many contradictions and imperfections o...f human reason, may entirely renounce all belief and opinion, it is impossible for him to persevere in this total scepticism, or make it appear in his conduct for a few hours.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men seldom persevere in a vocation unless they believe or can convince themselves that it is fundamentally more important than any... other calling. Women are the same with their lovers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The diary of your hurly-burly years goes to my shelf to wait for my age to pass.... Only in this hoarded span will love persevere. Whether you are pretty or not, I outlive you, bend down my strange face to yours and forgive you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You say that you do not succeed much. Does it concern you enough that you do not? Do you work hard enough at it? Do you get the be...nefit of discipline out of it? If so persevere. Is it a more serious thing than to walk a thousand miles in a thousand successive hours? Do you get any corns by it? Do you ever think of hanging yourself on account of failure?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfill...ed our mission or not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »