Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

I will hold.

Motto

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

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

10.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.

Carnegie, Dale

16.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

17.

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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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

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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.

20.

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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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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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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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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

Lucretius

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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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

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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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A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Robbins, Anthony

33.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

34.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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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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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained -- who can say this is not greatness?

Thackeray, William M.

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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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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.

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

Ovid

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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.

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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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