Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

- Coolidge, Calvin

Best Quotes about Perseverance

I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

Herhiser, Orel

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

Elliott, Walter

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.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Bible

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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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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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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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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

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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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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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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

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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Howard, Curly

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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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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

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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

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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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I will hold.

Motto

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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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As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Waitley, Denis

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

Ovid

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No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Epictetus

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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

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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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Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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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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I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody