Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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.

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

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

Corbett, James J.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Lovell, Jim

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

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.

Cossman, E. Joseph

10.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

12.

For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16]

Bible

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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

14.

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

Bradley, Tom

17.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

18.

You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.

Askenberg, J.

19.

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

20.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

21.

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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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

23.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

24.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

26.

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

Einstein, Albert

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It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired.

Strauss, Robert

28.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

30.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

31.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

32.

I will hold.

Motto

33.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

34.

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

35.

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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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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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

40.

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

Hays, Brian

41.

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

42.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

Brown, Les

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

Elliott, Walter

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

Ovid

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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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Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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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