Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Never, never, never, never give up.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Lucretius

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Ross, Percy

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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

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

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

James, William

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

10.

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

Lovell, Jim

11.

You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.

Askenberg, J.

12.

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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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

14.

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

Jessel, George

15.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

18.

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.

19.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

20.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

21.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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

Ovid

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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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

28.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

29.

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

Ruth, Babe

30.

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

Collier, Jeremy

31.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

32.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Nixon, Richard M.

34.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

35.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

Keller, Helen

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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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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.

39.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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

41.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

42.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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

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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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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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If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one!

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Bible

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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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A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha