Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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.

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Ovid

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Hays, Brian

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Jessel, George

10.

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

11.

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

Keller, Helen

12.

You have to persevere. You have to do it. I have insecurities. But whatever I'm insecure about I don't dissect it, but I'll go after it and say, What am I afraid of? I bet the average successful person can tell you they've failed so much more than they've had success. I've had far more failures than I've had successes. With every commercial I've gotten, there were 200 I didn't get. You have to go after what you're afraid of.

Sorbo, Kevin

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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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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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

17.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

18.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

19.

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

Bible

21.

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.

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

Lovell, Jim

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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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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.

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

Lucretius

26.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Einstein, Albert

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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

28.

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

Elliott, Walter

29.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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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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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.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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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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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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Corbett, James J.

40.

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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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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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Edison, Thomas A.

43.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

44.

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

Hays, Brian

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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

46.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

47.

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

48.

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

Einstein, Albert

49.

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

Burke, Edmund