Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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.

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

Lucretius

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

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

Ruth, Babe

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.

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

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

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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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

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

Ovid

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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

13.

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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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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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

16.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

18.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

19.

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

20.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

21.

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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Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliance and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bull doggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.

Meldrum, Dr. A. B.

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

Euripides

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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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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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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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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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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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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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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

33.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

34.

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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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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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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A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

Corbett, James J.

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

Bible

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

Ruth, Babe

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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

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

Lovell, Jim

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

47.

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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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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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

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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