Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Perseverance

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Christopher Reeve

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Ovid

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

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

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

Einstein, Albert

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

10.

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 be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Billings, Josh

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

Bradley, Tom

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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

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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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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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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The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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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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

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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience

John Gruber

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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Elliott, Walter

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

48.

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. [Hebrews 10:36]

Bible

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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