Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hays, Brian

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Riis, Jacob

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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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The person who wins may have been counted out several times, but didn't hear the referee.

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

Bradley, Tom

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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

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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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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

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

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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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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

29.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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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 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.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

Herhiser, Orel

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