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

Persistence is half the battle. That's what I love about independent movies. They don't have to be made. There's no studio with an agenda to set up a franchise like 'Batman' or to make a vehicle for a celebrity actor. My films are made because I love the process.

My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.

Life is full of challenges, but I always have the Three Ps: Passion, patience and persistence. And the fourth one is pizza.

Positivity, confidence, and persistence are key in life, so never give up on yourself.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

We will resolutely and persistently maintain independence while fighting for the protection of our sovereignty, but we must maintain a peaceful environment for development.

What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists.

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

We need to intentionally invest in health, in home ownership, in entrepreneurship, in access to democracy, in economic empowerment. If we don't do these things, we shouldn't be surprised that racial inequality persists because inequalities compound.

Many low-income children face chronic stress from nutritional deprivation or persistent violence at home or in the community. By addressing their medical, emotional and developmental needs through a comprehensive clinical care model, we can lower their risk of developing long-term physical and mental health issues.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

Always make the choice to learn. What Princeton taught me was whatever mess you are studying, pull a thread with great persistence 'til you have clarity of thought. Princeton taught me how to solve a problem. How to think - that's what we pull out of this place.

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.

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.

I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family.