Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Chesterfield, Lord

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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

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

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

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

10.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

11.

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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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.

13.

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

Bradley, Tom

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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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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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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

21.

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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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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I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

24.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

26.

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

Jessel, George

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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

30.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. [James 1:4]

Bible

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A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

34.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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You have to persevere. You have to do it. I have insecurities. But whatever I'm insecure about I don't dissect it, but I'll go after it and say, What am I afraid of? I bet the average successful person can tell you they've failed so much more than they've had success. I've had far more failures than I've had successes. With every commercial I've gotten, there were 200 I didn't get. You have to go after what you're afraid of.

Sorbo, Kevin

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

39.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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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

43.

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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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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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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Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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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.