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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bible

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

Ruth, Babe

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

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

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

Nicklaus, Jack

I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it.

Wickman, Bob

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

11.

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Hays, Brian

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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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Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Churchill, Winston

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

Smith, Sydney

19.

One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

Allen, George

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

21.

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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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Jessel, George

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

Elliott, Walter

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

31.

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

32.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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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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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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

Corbett, James J.

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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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

Collier, Jeremy

43.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Ovid

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

Christopher Reeve

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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 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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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

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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