Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

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

Herhiser, Orel

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

11.

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

12.

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

Bible

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I will hold.

Motto

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

15.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

16.

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

Ovid

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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

19.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

20.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

21.

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired.

Strauss, Robert

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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

26.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

30.

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

31.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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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

33.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bible

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

37.

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

38.

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

Lucretius

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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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You have to persevere. You have to do it. I have insecurities. But whatever I'm insecure about I don't dissect it, but I'll go after it and say, What am I afraid of? I bet the average successful person can tell you they've failed so much more than they've had success. I've had far more failures than I've had successes. With every commercial I've gotten, there were 200 I didn't get. You have to go after what you're afraid of.

Sorbo, Kevin

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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.

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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

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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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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

47.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon