Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Elliott, Walter

Best Quotes about Perseverance

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Euripides

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

Ovid

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

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

Askenberg, J.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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.

10.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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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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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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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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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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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

16.

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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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

18.

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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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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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

21.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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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A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

26.

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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Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

28.

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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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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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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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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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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

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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

37.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

39.

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

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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Wickman, Bob

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If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.

Howard, Curly

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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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Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.

Churchill, Winston

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

Einstein, Albert

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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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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]