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

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

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.

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

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

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

Elliott, Walter

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they have gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you. Except the Will which says to them; Hold on!

Kipling, Rudyard

10.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

11.

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

Corbett, James J.

12.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bradley, Tom

15.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

18.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.

Goodrich, Samuel G.

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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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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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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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Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.

Churchill, Winston

24.

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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Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. [James 1:4]

Bible

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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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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

28.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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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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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

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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

32.

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

33.

If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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.

40.

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

41.

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

Hays, Brian

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

Lovell, Jim

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The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

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Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

Ross, Percy

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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

50.

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