Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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

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

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

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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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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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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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

14.

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

Robbins, Anthony

15.

I will hold.

Motto

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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Lucretius

18.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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

Elliott, Walter

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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.

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

Hays, Brian

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

Wickman, Bob

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Howard, Curly

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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 failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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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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What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Einstein, Albert

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

Ruth, Babe

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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von