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

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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

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

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

10.

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

Mcpherson, Rene

11.

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

Corbett, James J.

12.

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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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

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To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Euripides

15.

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

Keller, Helen

16.

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

Ovid

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

20.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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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

22.

Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.

Twain, Mark

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

Elliott, Walter

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To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.

Osler, Sir William

25.

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

Lucretius

26.

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

27.

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

28.

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Hays, Brian

33.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

34.

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

35.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

42.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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

Wickman, Bob

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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