Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Perseverance

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

Hill, Napoleon

It's when things get rough and you don't quit that success comes.

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

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

Howard, Curly

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

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.

Perot, H. Ross

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Lucretius

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If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. All we have to do is kill them once.

Smith, Frederick

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

Einstein, Albert

12.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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

Petty, Richard

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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Smith, Sydney

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The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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

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Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Ovid

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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they have gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you. Except the Will which says to them; Hold on!

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

Paul, Alice

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Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

Chesterfield, Lord

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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained -- who can say this is not greatness?

Thackeray, William M.

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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.

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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Einstein, Albert

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You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

Corbett, James J.

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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

Saadi

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Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when your rise to battle again.

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

Lovell, Jim

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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

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Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty give way.

Collier, Jeremy

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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

Mcpherson, Rene

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.