Definition of Persistent

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Persistent

Inclined to persist; having staying qualities; tenacious of position or purpose.

Remaining beyond the period when parts of the same kind sometimes fall off or are absorbed; permanent; as, persistent teeth or gills; a persistent calyx; -- opposed to deciduous, and caducous.

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Persistent Quotations

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein

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

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
Orison Swett Marden

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

One thing of the many things that I know about Jesse Jackson, he is persistent.
Jackie Jackson

I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.
Naguib Mahfouz

Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects.
Wilhelm Wundt

Persistent Translations

persistent in Dutch is volhardend
persistent in Latin is pertinax, improbus
persistent in Portuguese is persistente
persistent in Swedish is envis

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