Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.

- Cossman, E. Joseph

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

Samuel Johnson

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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

Einstein, Albert

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.

It's when things get rough and you don't quit that success comes.

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

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

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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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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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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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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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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When the going gets tough, the tough hang in there.

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No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Petty, Richard

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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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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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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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

Ruth, Babe

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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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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

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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.

34.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hays, Brian

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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

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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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It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired.

Strauss, Robert

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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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

Lovell, Jim

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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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