Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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

Hays, Brian

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

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

Samuel Johnson

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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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

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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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

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

Ovid

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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

18.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

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We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

Keller, Helen

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Elliott, Walter

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

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I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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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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The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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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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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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A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Hays, Brian

41.

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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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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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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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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To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.

Osler, Sir William

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

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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.