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]

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Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Ross, Percy

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

Hill, Napoleon

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Churchill, Winston

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Billings, Josh

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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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One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The superior man perseveres long in his course, adapts to the times, but remains firm in his direction and correct in his goals.

I Ching

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When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

Brown, Les

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A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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

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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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

Howard, Curly

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When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Riis, Jacob

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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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It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Euripides

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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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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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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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Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.

Wordsworth, William

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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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If you haven't struck oil in the first three minutes - stop boring!

Jessel, George

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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliance and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bull doggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.

Meldrum, Dr. A. B.

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I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

Herhiser, Orel

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

43.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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

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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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

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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon