Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

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

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

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.

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

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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.

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Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Plutarch

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. [Hebrews 10:36]

Bible

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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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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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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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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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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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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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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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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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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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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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A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Jessel, George

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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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One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The superior man perseveres long in his course, adapts to the times, but remains firm in his direction and correct in his goals.

I Ching

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Bradley, Tom

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There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit.

Hays, Brian

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The most essential factor is persistence -- the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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

Lovell, Jim

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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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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 not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Einstein, Albert

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It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Ruth, Babe

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

Euripides

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

Ovid