Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Perseverance

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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

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

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Epictetus

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Bradley, Tom

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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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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ovid

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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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

Samuel Johnson

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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

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Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.

Doherty, Henry L.

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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 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]

Bible

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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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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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

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I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Christopher Reeve

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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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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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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Forbes, B. C.

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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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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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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Euripides

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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.

Twain, Mark

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

Elliott, Walter

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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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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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

Howard, Curly

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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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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

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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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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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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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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