Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Perseverance

A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Churchill, Winston

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16]

Bible

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Petty, Richard

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

Howard, Curly

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. [James 1:4]

Bible

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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

Lucretius

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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

17.

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

18.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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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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You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.

Askenberg, J.

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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

James, William

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

Ovid

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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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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

Iacocca, Lee

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Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

Elliott, Walter

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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.

Borg, Bjorn

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In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

Henley, William Ernest

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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

32.

You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience

John Gruber

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One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

Allen, George

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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit.

Hays, Brian

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Success... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Hilton, Conrad

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

Burke, Edmund

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Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

Ross, Percy

39.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

Hill, Napoleon

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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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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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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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If you've got the guts to stick it out... you're going to make it.

Hays, Brian

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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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I never thought I didn't have a card to play.

Lovell, Jim

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For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. [Hebrews 10:36]