All Quotes

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
‐‐ George Santayana

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.
‐‐ Grenville Kleiser

Perish the infamous doctrine that man can have property in man. Let us resent with indignation every effort to put a chain upon our minds.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

Perjury before Congress is perjury to the American people and an affront to the fundamental principles of our republic and the rule of law. Such behavior cannot be tolerated.
‐‐ Paul Gosar

Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that we breathe into the axe of an executioner.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
‐‐ Larry Wall

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle

Permanent bonds of culture began to be formed between the extreme East and the extreme West of Europe by intermarriage, by commerce, by the admission of the nobles of Byzantium within the orders of chivalry.
‐‐ Joseph Jacobs

Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.
‐‐ Miep Gies

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.
‐‐ Sarah Bernhardt

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.
‐‐ Paul Harris

Permission marketing is marketing without interruptions.
‐‐ Seth Godin

Permission marketing turns strangers into friends and friends into loyal customers. It's not just about entertainment - it's about education. Permission marketing is curriculum marketing.
‐‐ Seth Godin

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.
‐‐ Thomas Szasz

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
‐‐ Robert Louis Stevenson

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
‐‐ Colin Powell

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.
‐‐ Jeremy Collier

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
‐‐ Khalil Gibran

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
‐‐ Thomas Paine

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.
‐‐ Howard Mumford Jones

Persecution of Christians is growing around the world, and Congress needs to pay more attention to it.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.
‐‐ Thomas Babington Macaulay

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
‐‐ Frank Moore Colby

Persecutions are inevitable as a Christian. We are not greater than our Master, Jesus Christ, in whose Holy Spirit we gain strength to endure.
‐‐ Monica Johnson

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Perseverance and perspective until victory.
‐‐ Lincoln Diaz-Balart

Perseverance has always just been something that was in me. And it was a tool that came in very handy as a ballerina.
‐‐ Misty Copeland

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
‐‐ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.
‐‐ Bob Riley

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
‐‐ Julie Andrews

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
‐‐ Plutarch

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
‐‐ Victor Hugo

Persevere in virtue and diligence.
‐‐ Plautus

Persia is 7,000 years old and will fight to survive.
‐‐ Richard Engel

Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.
‐‐ Moshe Katsav

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
‐‐ Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Persistence and determination are incredibly important. But sometimes you need to analyze the situation and understand when you're wrong. You need to be able to cop to being wrong, learn to change, and continue to grow as a human being.
‐‐ Sasha Grey

Persistence and endurance will make you omnipotent.
‐‐ Casey Neistat

Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.
‐‐ Gever Tulley

Persistence is a pretty important part of making it in this business, which, in retrospect, is the easy part. Maintaining a profile is the difficult part of the job. Somehow or another, I muddled through that system and somehow am around to still enjoy playing for people.
‐‐ Chris Squire

Persistence is incredibly important. Persistence proves to the person you're trying to reach that you're passionate about something, that you really want something.
‐‐ Norah O'Donnell

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
‐‐ Napoleon Hill

Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.
‐‐ George Gissing

Personal ambition is 'I want to be CEO.' Greater vision ambition is, 'I want to lead this company so that people want to work here.'
‐‐ Srikumar Rao

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
‐‐ Aristotle

Personal brand equity erodes much faster than corporate brand equity.
‐‐ John Quelch

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.
‐‐ Ernest Hemingway