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

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

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.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

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

Keller, Helen

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

10.

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

11.

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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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

13.

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

14.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Ross, Percy

17.

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

Hays, Brian

18.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

19.

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.

20.

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

Burke, Edmund

21.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

23.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

24.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

25.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

26.

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

27.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

28.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

29.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

30.

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

Hill, Napoleon

31.

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

32.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

33.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

34.

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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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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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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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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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 jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

40.

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

Bible

41.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

42.

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

Elliott, Walter

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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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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

46.

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

Lovell, Jim

47.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

48.

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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I will hold.