Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

- Corbett, James J.

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when your rise to battle again.

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

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

Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliance and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bull doggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.

Meldrum, Dr. A. B.

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

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Forbes, B. C.

11.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

14.

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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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

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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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

Bible

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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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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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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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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.

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

24.

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

Askenberg, J.

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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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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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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

28.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

Mcpherson, Rene

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Keller, Helen

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

Howard, Curly

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

Hays, Brian

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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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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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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