A Quote by Joseph B. Wirthlin

Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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Positive Active Characteristic Perseverance

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Joseph B. Wirthlin
American - Businessman
June 11, 1917 - December 1, 2008

Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic. It is not idly, passively waiting and hoping for some good thing to happen.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Perseverance means to continue in a given course until we have reached a goal or objective, regardless of obstacles, opposition, and other counterinfluences...Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic...It gives us hope by helping us realize that the righteous suffer no failure except in giving up and no longer trying.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

William Godwin

Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances-it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.

Elizabeth George

I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.

Emma Bonino

The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.

Herbert Read

"Genius is divine perseverance." Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.

Woodrow Wilson

Cubans joke and satirize everything that life gives them, and I think that's a positive characteristic.

Fernando Perez

Confidence is a characteristic of a positive attitude. The greatest achievers and leaders remain confident regardless of circumstances.

John C. Maxwell

The assumption that the square of a unit vector is positive unity leads to an algebra whose characteristic quantities are non-associative.

Cargill Gilston Knott

I have used the word "attention," which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon individual reality. I believe this to be the characteristic and proper mark of the active moral agent.

Iris Murdoch

It's all about perseverance. Absolute perseverance. You can always get back up.

Cory Monteith

Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.

Jocko Willink

Since I reached the conclusion that the essence of the creative person is being in love with what one is doing, I have had a growing awareness that this characteristic makes possible all the other personality characteristics of the creative person: independence of thought and judgment, honesty, perseverance, curiosity, willingness to take risks and the like.