Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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

10.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Jessel, George

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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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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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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Herodotus

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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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You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Ruth, Babe

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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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I will hold.

Motto

23.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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When the going gets tough, the tough hang in there.

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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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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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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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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it.

Wickman, Bob

35.

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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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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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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

Elliott, Walter

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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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Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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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.

43.

I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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

48.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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