#persist

Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong. ↗

— Criss Jami

#argument #challenge #changing #changing-your-mind #controversial

Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind. ↗

— Criss Jami

#conviction #courage #determination #entail #genius

Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim. Attacking is his only secret. Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#daring #persistence #courage

People don't just live one life. They keep coming back until they get it right. ↗

— C.R. Strahan

#reincarnation #spirituality #dreams

Really, there was only one sensible thing to do. Stay the course. Pray it through, day by day, minute by minute. The Lord had an answer and it would surely come. (p. 203) ↗

— Janice Hanna

#enduring #faith #persistence #prayer #faith

A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failed. I well know. For its a sign that he tried to surpass himself. ↗

— Georges Clemenceau

#interesting #persistence #power #try #life

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#effort #failure #glorious #hopeless #little

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#hatred #human #human soul #persistent #soul

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories. ↗

— Bjorn Borg

#ball #defeats #down #fight #give

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. ↗

— Hal Borland

#appreciate #grass #i #i can #knowing