Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-5] of 5 Persistence quotesPersistence QuotesPersistence This is a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision.~ James Clyburn What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not completed to the point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, "It is finished. We made it and it works.~ William Faulkner Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You are doing an excellent thing, one which will be wholesome for you, if, as you write me, you are persisting in your effort to attain sound understanding; it is foolish to pray for this when you can acquire it from yourself. We do not need to uplift our hands towards heaven, or to beg the keeper of a temple to let us approach his idol's ear, as if in this way our prayers were more likely to be heard. A god is near you, with you, and in you. This is what I mean, Lucilius: there sits a holy spirit within us, one who marks our good and bad deeds, and is our a guardian.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn.~ Daniel Webster Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print