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

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

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

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.

Wordsworth, William

A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.

Nixon, Richard M.

10.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

Allen, George

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

Howard, Curly

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Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.

Churchill, Winston

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

Lincoln, Abraham

19.

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

Hays, Brian

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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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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 will hold.

Motto

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

Christopher Reeve

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

Lovell, Jim

25.

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

Jessel, George

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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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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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Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

Ross, Percy

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

Burke, Edmund

30.

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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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

34.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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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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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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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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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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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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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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

Euripides

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George