Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Persevere and get it done.

- Allen, George

Best Quotes about Perseverance

You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

Iacocca, Lee

Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged.

Edison, Thomas A.

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

Ovid

I will hold.

Motto

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right time can only happen when you keep moving toward the next opportunity.

Pine, Arthur

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one!

DeVos, Richard M.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

10.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

11.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

12.

The most essential factor is persistence -- the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

Snead, Sam

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If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Hill, Napoleon

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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

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Never give up. Keep your thoughts and your mind always on the goal.

Bradley, Tom

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Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.

Goodrich, Samuel G.

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Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Einstein, Albert

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Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

Rohn, Jim

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Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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The person who wins may have been counted out several times, but didn't hear the referee.

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Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

Nicklaus, Jack

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Don't worry about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and determination. And the best motto for a long march is: Don't grumble. Plug on!

Treves, Sir Thomas

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We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

Keller, Helen

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I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

Lincoln, Abraham

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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

34.

They, that unnamed they, they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.

Corso, Gregory

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Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.

Churchill, Winston

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Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

Burke, Edmund

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To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.

Osler, Sir William

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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.

Carnegie, Dale

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If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.

Howard, Curly

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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Edison, Thomas A.

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People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

Allen, George E.

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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Hill, Napoleon

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When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Rockefeller, John D.

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The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.

Lincoln, Abraham

49.

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

Hill, Napoleon

50.

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Ruth, Babe