Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Bradley, Tom

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ruth, Babe

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

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

Christopher Reeve

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

Bradley, Tom

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

I never thought I didn't have a card to play.

Lovell, Jim

11.

There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

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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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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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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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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

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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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

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Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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

Howard, Curly

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

34.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

35.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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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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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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Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty give way.

Collier, Jeremy

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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they have gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you. Except the Will which says to them; Hold on!

Kipling, Rudyard

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

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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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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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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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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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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.